The TISS report, on the ‘State of Teachers, Teaching and Teacher Education’. is quite as alarming and perhaps explains the results of the ASER report. The TISS report says that around 35-41 per cent of mathematics teachers, both in government and private schools, lack the necessary expertise to teach the subject. Overall, India’s school education, especially public schools in rural areas, is simply catastrophic, for a country that is relying on its ‘demographic dividend’. According to a Ministry of Education report released in 2022, States spend almost 80 per cent of their education budget on primary and secondary education.

Source: The Hindu January 22, 2024 02:26 UTC