The budget session of Parliament has started. It will be worth seeing how much money the government allocates for education in the budget this time. Announcements are being made to open schools once again after a gap of 10 months in the country. 1.5 million schools in the country have been closed since March 2020 due to the Corona epidemic. About 30 crore children are out of schools. In this difficult time, the necessary funds for opening of schools and the return of children to school will be very important.
Finance Minister Smt Nirmala Sitharaman held a pre-budget consultation on 17 December 2020 with the civil society organizations working in various fields regarding the Union Budget 2021-22. In which several organizations including Right to Education (RTE) Forum raised the demand to increase the expenditure on education to 6% of GDP. As per the promise made in the National Education Policy, 2020, the emphasis was on providing additional funds to set up a ‘Gender and Inclusive Fund’. So that the challenges facing girls education can be dealt with.
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Corona epidemic has increased the number of girls after the implementation of the Right to Education Act, which has already shaken the education system of the country. Now when there is talk of opening of school after 10 months, it is feared that 20 to 25 percent of the children will drop out. These include mostly girls and children from Dalit, tribal, disabled and poor-deprived families. After the implementation of the Right to Education Act, 2009, a large number of children were enrolled in schools. In which the increase in the number of girls was significant. However, due to weak infrastructure and lack of availability of secondary schools, girls’ chances of moving from primary to secondary classes are weakened.
Girls unable to continue after elementary schooling
According to the report of the Child Protection Commission, 40% of girls in the age group of 15 to 18 are unable to continue their education after elementary schooling. This figure is quite challenging in the case of girls completing their education up to 12th standard. This indicates that there is a need to increase the number of secondary schools and immediately appoint full-time, regular, trained and qualified teachers.
In response to a written question in the month of September last year, Education Minister Mr. Pokhriyal himself admitted that 17.1 percent of teachers’ posts in the country’s schools are vacant. These need to be filled immediately. It is necessary to have qualified teachers to ensure the quality of education. Therefore, the appointment of untrained and low-honorarium teachers on contract will be avoided.
Online education has increased the difficulties for the village students
. According to a data from U DICE 2016-17, 18% of teachers do not meet the standards of the Right to Education Act, 2009 in terms of qualification. The work of training and regularizing them is yet to be done. Online education has also led to a huge gap of inequality, as 80 percent of the villages and poor children of the cities, which have a large number of girls, lack of computers, laptops, smart phones and proper resources for education. Are becoming out of scope.
The Right to Education Act could only be implemented in 12.7% of schools, the
Right to Education Act 2009 could not be fully implemented even after 11 years. According to government figures, it has been implemented in only 12.7% of schools. Still 52% of our schools are struggling with lack of infrastructure. Where there is no clean drinking water, hand washing facilities and useable toilets. Without economic resources, neither the Right to Education Act can be fully implemented nor the implementation of the new National Education Policy recently adopted by the Cabinet.
In 1966, the first Education Commission of India (Kothari Commission) could not even achieve the target of spending 6% of the country’s GDP on education. The allocation of education always remained between 3-4%. Both the center and the state have to spend money on education which varies from state to state. In this, the poor and backward states, especially the states of North India and North East, are lagging behind in the allocation of funds. This creates a huge gap of inequality in education.
60% of Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao was spent on advertising only. Recently,
to promote girls’ education, the government had launched a scheme under “Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao”. But he could not be followed seriously. In 2018-19, 60% of the funds earmarked for it have been spent on advertising only. Along with allocating funds for such schemes, a clear action plan is needed so that the funds can be spent in the right place to achieve encouraging results. At present, it has been suggested in the National Education Policy to extend the Midday Meal Scheme and provide breakfast. This will require additional funds.
Vandana, a 16-year-old Dalit student from Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh sent a petition to the Finance Minister to increase education expenses, has sent a petition to the Union Finance Minister to increase the expenditure on education. So that vulnerable children can have schools in their neighborhoods so that girls can complete their education up to 12th standard. The petition has been signed and endorsed by around 75 thousand people from different parts of the country including 72 MPs. It is expected that the central government will understand the seriousness of the times and ensure education rights, nutrition and care of crores of children. And the Union budget will allocate 10% of the total expenditure on education.
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