explain the quality of population.do education and health is also included in quality of population
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Education, healthcare and training make a population an asset to a country and are the three factors to determine the quality of a nation’s population. Uneducated, untrained and unhealthy people are termed as nation’s liability.
Education helps unlock the doors of new aspirations and opportunities and allows having a good life. Education inculcates good values and helps find good employment to let contribute to the national income.
Education prepares a person in becoming a responsible citizen thereby contribute to the country’s good governance. The national expenditure on education grew from just 151 crore rupees in the first five-year plan of 1951 to 43,825 crore rupees in the tenth plan of 2002. From 1951 to 2002, the expenditure on education rose from just 0.64% to 3.98% of our Gross Domestic Product.
The government is in the process of establishing Navodaya Vidyalayas in every district of the country to provide universal access to education to all children.
The central government has also launched the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan in partnership with the state and local governments. This is a time-bound initiative to provide free, compulsory elementary education to all children between 6 and 14 years of age by 2010.
The tenth five-year plan for 2002-2007 focussed on increasing the enrolment of students from 18 to 23 years of age in higher education. The tenth plan aimed to combine formal, informal and distance education to provide better access to education to students in all parts of the country.
The government aims to provide vocational training. The number of universities and colleges of higher studies have grown in number since 1951 but are not enough to accommodate all the aspiring students in the country.
The state of education in a country is measured by its literacy rate. The literacy rate in India is higher for the male population than the female population and is not uniform across India. This is mainly due to the tradition of less emph