Overview-Indian Education System
{ Posted on Thursday, April 18, 2013
by Swastiq
}
India has been a major place of learning for thousands of years, dating back to ancient places of learning like Nalanda. In modern times, Indian educational institutions such as the (IITs, IISc, IIMs, NITs,AIIMS, ISI, BITS and ISB) are well known worldwide. India, being a developing nation, struggles with challenges in its primary education and strives to reach 100% literacy. Universal Compulsory Primary Education, with its challenges of keeping poor children in school and maintaining quality of education in rural areas, has been difficult to achieve (Kerala is an Indian state to reach this goal so far). All levels of education in India, from primary to higher education, are overseen by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, and heavily subsidized by the Indian government, though there is a move to make higher education partially self-financing. The Indian Government is considering to allow 100% foreign direct investment in Higher Education.
Education Oversight | Minister of HRD |
HRD Minister | Kapil Sibal |
National education budget | Rs.45,267 crore (2009-10) |
Primary language(s) of education | English, Other regional languages |
Literacy (2001) | 64.80% |
• Men | 75.30% |
• Women | 53.70% |
Enrollment | 189.2 million |
(2001-02) | |
• Primary (I-V) | 113.9 million |
• Mid/Upper Prim. (VI-VIII) | 44.8 million |
• Higher Secondary (IX-X) | 30.5 million |
