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1. Given the standing of some of its
institutions of higher learning, the IITs and IIMs,
India is a potential knowledge power. Realizing
the potential, however, is not going to be easy.
The impressive strides made by Sarva Shiksha
Abhiyan (SSA) notwithstanding, universal
access to quality school education- a minimum
necessary condition for any progress towards
making India a knowledge society', as the 2006
report of the National Knowledge Commission
(NKC) puts it-remains a distant goal
2. There is as yet no legislation at the national
level to affirm the right to education, a
fundamental right under the Constitution. The
number of school buildings for elementary and
secondary education falls far short of
requirements and so does the number of
qualified teachers. The pressure on government
budgets, which forces governments to hire
teachers on contract paying a pittance of a
salary, is playing havoc with quality. While the
incursion of the private sector in the field is
providing some competition, mechanisms to
enforce the required standards are lacking.
3. Not that there are no national standards or
standards-enforcing agencies. We have the
National Council for Educational Research and
Training (NCERT) to bring out textbooks in
various subjects for school education. The
central government runs several model schools.
The Central Board of Secondary Education
(CBSE) conducts examinations for schools
affiliated to it across the country. The states too
have their school boards to conduct exams and
enforce minimum standards. How even the
standards vary widely. In their anxiety to show​

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1. Given the standing of some of its

institutions of higher learning, the IITs and IIMs,

India is a potential knowledge power. Realizing

the potential, however, is not going to be easy.

The impressive strides made by Sarva Shiksha

Abhiyan (SSA) notwithstanding, universal

access to quality school education- a minimum

necessary condition for any progress towards

making India a knowledge society', as the 2006

report of the National Knowledge Commission

(NKC) puts it-remains a distant goal

2. There is as yet no legislation at the national

level to affirm the right to education, a

fundamental right under the Constitution. The

number of school buildings for elementary and

secondary education falls far short of

requirements and so does the number of

qualified teachers. The pressure on government

budgets, which forces governments to hire

teachers on contract paying a pittance of a

salary, is playing havoc with quality. While the

incursion of the private sector in the field is

providing some competition, mechanisms to

enforce the required standards are lacking.

3. Not that there are no national standards or

standards-enforcing agencies. We have the

National Council for Educational Research and

Training (NCERT) to bring out textbooks in

various subjects for school education. The

central government runs several model schools.

The Central Board of Secondary Education

(CBSE) conducts examinations for schools

affiliated to it across the country. The states too

have their school boards to conduct exams and

enforce minimum standards. How even the

standards vary widely. In their anxiety to show