The education sector wants more funds to help expand scope of education for all
While the country is facing a severe crisis on the knowledge creation front, the Union government is also taking measures to create educational infrastructure in the country. However, experts in the education sector are expecting fair amount of provision for expansion and improvement of quality of education in the country.
Ravindra Dave, former director of UNESCO's Institute for Education, believes that huge funds are needed for expansion as well as maintaining quality in higher and secondary level education. He said, "If India wants to create a new knowledge base for the future, it will need more qualified people with higher education. We need to expand the number of students in higher education for knowledge creation. Moreover, our 80% college pass-outs are unemployable so we need to spend money on improvement of quality of education. New areas of study must be introduced with specialisation in focused subjects like agriculture
bio-technology, medical bio-technology, industrial bio-technology etc. At the same time, we must improve the quality of our professors, we need to give them world-wide exposure for research."
He further said, "Secondary education was also neglected in the country's earlier budgets but we can expect that significant budgetary provisions will be made in this budget. We are yet to provide secondary education to five crore children, as only four crore students out of nine crore are into secondary education. We need to start many more vocational courses and with developing anti-poverty education programmes that may enable students to be not only employable but self-employable." MP Chhaya, president of Calorx Teacher's University, said: "While the Union government is committed to expand the reach of education in the country, it is also true that just the government can't do everything in the education sector, as it needs huge amount of money.
We can expect maximum allocation of fund for education in the country, at the same time there should be some provisions in the budget to encourage public private partnership (PPP) model and corporate to corporate partnership (CCP) for setting up new educational institutions across the country that will include villages also. There should be provisions for improvement of teachers' training in the country."
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