By IANS,
New Delhi: School education in India has improved over the last few years and to boost the good work Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal will meet state education secretaries Thursday.
Sibal will “review the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and other school education programmes in the country”, said a human resource development (HRD) ministry official.
According to a recent government survey, there has been marked improvement in the basic education scenario in the country as most children get access to schools with the exception of states like Arunachal Pradesh and West Bengal, which are lagging behind.
As per the survey, there is one upper primary school for every set of 2.27 primary schools as compared to 2.45 schools in 2006. In many states, the ratio is one to two and all this “suggests that by and large schooling facilities have been created and are available across the country”.
The number of schools imparting elementary education has improved from 1.19 million in 2006-07 to 1.28 million across 633 districts of the country now.