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EDUCATION DILEMMA
The worsening situation of school education in Delhi is also reflected in India’s
deplorable Human Development Index (​ HDI​ ) that totters at a poor rank of 131 in the
world. In the Draft National Education Policy (​ NEP​ ) also, the Government of India
has admitted that there are many flaws in the Indian education system.
Instead of learning from the HDI indicator or the findings of NEP, and improving the
education system in local schools, Delhi Government has become a part of the
worrisome national trend. Worse, the government is creating a huge hype around
school education to hoodwink the ignorant students and parents.
The government schools of Delhi are mostly crowded with students from
economically weaker sections of society. The parents of these students are so
illiterate that they do not understand the meaning of education.
When students go to schools, parents assume that their children are gaining
education in the school buildings; but that is not true. This is a misconception which
is being exploited by Delhi’s politicians and bureaucrats in the education department.
In order to hide the facts about deteriorating education standards, they have not
created any empirical models to measure the learning outcomes in schools.
Factors Responsible for Poor Quality of School Education
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