The demand-supply gap is staggering, despite the fact that in absolute numbers, India continues to have the largest number of children out of school in any country in the world. The 30% targetAt the higher education level, the situation gets even worse. If one in every three eligible students who have completed high school actually wants to join college in three years from now, we need to create 40 million university seats. Despite the spectacular growth in private sector education — the education sector had gross revenues of Rs. The only workable solution is to ensure uniformity in the quality of education, at least at the school level to start with.

Source: The Hindu July 02, 2017 00:55 UTC