Challenges in Elementary Education in India: Various Approaches

Abstract

Education is a vital means for the potentialities of a human being to emerge in a positive direction so that aman can live in society with full of dignity and can mould the habits, tastes and character of individualsliving in society by imparting knowledge and information. Therefore, in a democratic country like ours thegovernment has felt the needs and importance of education and has an onerous responsibility to implementplans and programmes for democratization of education in the country. Now, education is constitutionallyrecognized as a birth right of the citizens of the country. So, to make education accessible to all has been amission of the government and many targets like the Millennium Development Goal by 2015, India Visionby 2020, have been identified including that of Inclusive Growth by the government. It is appropriate for usnow to assess and evaluate the progress and the prospect of the approaches which are being implementedfor ensuring the universalization of elementary education in India.

Key words: Education, various approaches and its achievement