Bridging the Digital Divide in the Indian Education Sector

Indian education system is in the mode of massification. Paucity of Finance and quality crunching education sector is a policy discourse today. Joint responsibility of central and state governments for educational development came into existence with the recommendation of Kothari Commission (1976). But, even after many decades, we have not achieved the targeted level of education. This study focuses to examine the trend and pattern of expenditure of central, state and union territories governments on education sector of India. In addition to that paper tries to study the budgetary provision for the education sector by the central government under different five year plans in India. This study is based on secondary data collected mainly from Ministry of Human Resource Development, GoI. The assessment years for the study are from 2000-01 to 2018-19. The study found that due to the policy impact of decentralisation the role and responsibility for financing education in the hand of centre declined and state increased after 2001. The study also reveals that government funding on primary education has become top priority over the years in relation to secondary, higher and technical education. The combined public expenditure incurred by both central and state governments on education hovering around three to four percent of GDP since 2001. There is a need to increase spending on India’s education sector beyond six percent of Gross Domestic Product and per capita expenditure on education should also grow.

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Indian Education System In Fight Against Covid 19 Pandemic

The Impact Of COVID19 On The International Education System ◽

10.51432/978-1-8381524-0-6_6 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 87-96

Author(s):

Utsav Raj ◽

Shivank Khare

Keyword(s):

Online Education ◽

Education System ◽

Education Sector ◽

Indian Education ◽

Online Classes ◽

Web Portal ◽

Secondary Schooling ◽

E Learning ◽

The Government ◽

The Web

The Coronavirus pandemic and thus the following lockdown has forced schools and colleges across India to temporarily shut and this unprecedented move had created a huge gap within the education bodies despite the central and the government doing their best to support e-learning and online education. Globally, the Indian Education sector is amongst the most important, with an in-depth network of quite 1.4 million schools and 993 Universities, 39931 Colleges, and 10725 Stand-Alone Institutions listed on the AISHE web portal. Because the Indian education system was mostly supported by the offline system and classes. Most of the first, and secondary schooling sectors were all supported offline education system has got to opt the web classes for empowering the education, and for the advantages of the scholars. Many faculties within the country have switched to online classes thanks to the lockdown, but one in four students is unable to connect because they don’t have a laptop, desktop, or tablet, according to a survey by economic times.

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Online Education in India and the Widening Digital Divide

Handbook of Research on Inequities in Online Education During Global Crises - Advances in Mobile and Distance Learning ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-6533-9.ch025 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 494-509

Author(s):

Ninawari Dilip Ware

Keyword(s):

Online Education ◽

Digital Divide ◽

Online Teaching ◽

Total Population ◽

Household Consumption ◽

Education Sector ◽

Education In India ◽

Alternative Measures ◽

Education Model ◽

Teaching Learning

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, several sectors across the globe have witnessed widespread disruption, impacting almost every sector of the economy. The education sector is no exception to this; schools across the globe have been shut, and over 1.2 billion children are out of classrooms. Owing to this situation, India's schools have adopted online teaching-learning for children, like many other countries. According to the 75th NSS data of household consumption on India's education, only 10.7% of the total population have computers and other gadgets, and 23.8% have access internet. Based on the data, the feasibility of adopting a complete online education model in a country like India remains uncertain and remote. This chapter aims to study the intricacies of India's digital divide and further suggests inclusive alternative measures to overcome the same.

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Status of the Secondary and Senior Secondary Education Sector of Madhya Pradesh in Comparison with BIMARU (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh) States

International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology ◽

10.22214/ijraset.2021.36976 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (VII) ◽

pp. 2889-2897

Author(s):

Utkarsha Bansal

Keyword(s):

Secondary Education ◽

Elementary Education ◽

Uttar Pradesh ◽

Madhya Pradesh ◽

Education Sector ◽

Indian Education ◽

Access To Education ◽

Equitable Access ◽

Micro Level ◽

Senior Secondary

Secondary and Senior Secondary education plays a formidable role in the career development of an individual. Traditionally the Indian education sector has primarily focused on schooling till the elementary education sector. This study attempts to trace the growth of secondary and senior secondary education sector in the state of Madhya Pradesh with a comparative analysis drawn with BIMARU states. This micro-level study provides insights for framing holistic policies to ensure equitable access to education.

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