Review of the state of education quality in India: issues to be addressed

Importance of education is the key to development of a nation. Despite the fact that education has been made free and compulsory in India as per Article 21-A of the Constitution, only in the last few decades, more efforts have been made for its expansion at public as well as private levels. However, private establishments are visualized more in primary and professional areas. Here, it is a question of debate as to whether the current state of expansion is adequate enough or not. Again, adequate expansion, if at all achieved, would eventually necessitate sustainable quality of infrastructure. But, both research and experience indicate several bottlenecks in the path for enhancing education quality. Therefore, one of the challenges of the next decade will be in identifying constructive and cost-effective ways by which the improvement in teaching and learning could be made possible in India. This paper focuses on this aspect of education.