Socio-economic factors including poverty, gender
discrimination.
High dropout rate
Inadequate infrastructure
Quality of education
Disadvantaged groups including girl child, SCs, STs,
certain BCs, Minorities, children with special needs.
Ineffective and inefficient administrative mechanisms
& procedures.
Inadequacies in teaching-learning environment including
shortage of teachers, teacher competency; lack of adequate motivation among some teachers,
curriculum updation, training of teachers etc.
Wide-spread prevalence of child labour
To Achieve the goal of total literacy by 2005,
all possible resources will need to be mobilised for manpower and infrastructure
provisioning, apart from a detailed training strategy. For achieving only total literacy
by 2005 an estimated amount of about Rs.2000 crores would need to be mobilised. The
concerns that would arise thereafter i.e., demand for access to upper primary and relevant
and quality secondary and higher education will need to be addressed in due course.
To Achieve the goal of total literacy by 2005,
all possible resources will need to be mobilised for manpower and infrastructure
provisioning, apart from a detailed training strategy. For achieving only total literacy
by 2005 an estimated amount of about Rs.2000 crores would need to be mobilised. The
concerns that would arise thereafter i.e., demand for access to upper primary and relevant
and quality secondary and higher education will need to be addressed in due course.
