Education in Delhi Schools: Rhetoric vs. Reality Delhi-School-Education-Rep-June-2018 | Page 3

REPORT SUMMARY
While the local politicians and top bureaucrats in Delhi Government are going gaga
over the hyped quality of education in Delhi schools, there is a marked difference
between the rhetoric and reality.
In fact, the quality of school education has been going from bad to worse. But the
corrupt government forces are disseminating false propaganda around the education
quality just to hide their administrative failures and woo gullible voters.
This report has been prepared by RMN Foundation - a humanitarian organization -
which also runs a free education and career counseling centre for deserving children
in New Delhi. The report has been prepared after more than 3 years of extensive
research which includes door-to-door surveys, interactions with hundreds of Delhi
school students, parents, and teachers, and a number of other educational outreach
programs.
The author of this research report - ​ Rakesh Raman - runs a free school
single-handedly (without any support) to provide modern education to deserving
children in a poor colony of Delhi. He has interacted with hundreds of students and
parents to understand the current education system in Delhi schools.
Under his NGO RMN Foundation, he is running multiple field campaigns and
educational outreach programs with the help of student volunteers who study at
RMN Foundation school.
He also has written academic as well as supplementary education books to
provide modern education to children. He has developed a “Constructive
Education Framework” for school students to help them compete in the modern
knowledge-driven world.
Earlier, he was associated with the United Nations (UN) through United Nations
Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) as a digital media expert.
The report highlights numerous pitfalls in the current state of school education
including irrelevant syllabuses, poor content quality of books, defective pedagogical
methods, incompetence of teachers, disturbing teacher-student ratios, and overall
lack of administration in local schools.
The report observes that the government schools are being run in a totally
free-wheeling manner mainly because the school teachers, bureaucrats in education
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