Literacy Challenges

Antara Dev Sen shares her views on Literacy challenges in the Deccan Chronicle:

• We need to look not only at quantity, but also the quality of school education.
  
• More than a quarter of schools do not have proper buildings or drinking water.
  
• Half do not have girls’ toilets.
  
• Most do not have proper teachers.
  
• Teacher absenteeism rages.
  
• Allotments for ICDS and MDM schemes are inadequate and do not always reach students.
  
• And endemic class, caste and gender discriminations spawn systematic deprivation of large sections of society, institutionalising disparity in educational achievements.

Hmmmn....So, what are the solutions? !! Lot of work to do!