MODERN INDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM

Indian education system has took a new turn, with the developing of the nation. The education system is blooming up. The main motto of the Government is to reduce the illiteracy rate and to provide general and primary knowledge to every Indian. Indian education system was known not be so well-developed in terms of circullum and academics, even keeping the poverty rate in mind, people could not even educate themselves or their children due to fees or anyother criteria. India being a developing country, has the faced the problem of illiteracy and is thus still facing. But the modern Indian education has something new, it tends to go to every nook and corner of India and help make the people grow and as the statement termed” Padega India , tabhi toh badega India”(Educated India leads to Developed India).

Modern Indian education system is quite developed and the measures taken are beneficial and has proven to help India educate upto a certain amount till date.The present education system of India is the advent of the British rule. The Britishers proposed a amendment called Magna Carta for the Indian Education which changed the scenario of the system. This law was passed just to educate the Indian clerks during those days for local administration. After the amendment was passed schools started opening to vernacular studies upto primary level and English in the higher level. The British government started providing funds to some of the schools to help them, thus further these schools became government-aided. During those years the literacy rate of India was more than it could have being in the past fifty to hundred years. The Britishers developed schools even in the rural areas of India, but due to the European method of studying the schools were quite expensive and many of them could not afford to go to schools and the ancient Indian schools were not termed to be

schools as they were private and according to the British survey they do not provide with much knowledge.

Today’s education system in India can be divided into many stages namely pre-primary which consists of children upto 3-5 years of age, in this stage children are given information about the school life and are taught basic reading and writing skills. The next stage is the primary stage consisting of children from 6-11 years of age from the standard first to fifth. The third stage is the middle stage which consists of students studying from sixth to eigth. The fourth stage is the secondary which consists of students in the class ninth and tenth. Then it’s the higher-secondary stage which consists of students studying in eleventh and twelfth class. The next level is the undergraduate level here the student goes to pursue higher education in the college, the course may vary according to the subject pursued by the student. The last level is the post-graduation level here after completing the graduation the student may opt for post graduation for add in his qualifications.

The education system of India is divided into different education governing bodies, which provides different level of education in each of them. It consists of the Central Board Of Secondary Education which is the main governing body of education system in India. It has control over the central education system. The second is the Council of Indian School Certificates, it conducts two examinations ‘Indian certificate of secondary education’ and ‘Indian school certificate’.The third is the State Government bodies, apart from the above both each state in india has a state government body looking after the issues in education in the particular state.The fourth is the National Open School which was established by the government of India in 1989, it is for those students who cannot attend formal schools. The last governing bosy of education system is the International schools, it controls the schools which are accredited to the curriculum of international standard.

According to the Constitution of India,elementary education is the fundamental right of every children in the nation. The education has become compulsory for the age group from 6-14 years of age. According to the statistics two-third of the children are enrolled in schools but half of them don’t attend schools regularly. Half of the children drop out from schools before completing their education. Thus, the government has enrolled many plans to improve the education of the elementary education such as “Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, District Primary Education program, Operation Blackboard etc.”

The Sarva shiksha Abhiyan main goal is to educate the children of 6-11 years of age with primary education. The plan covers the whole country with special emphasis on girl education which has been the main problem in India. This plan has mainly opened schools were there are no schools or any educating body and it evens sees to it that every child acquire education even though its facing any financial problems by providing them with free education facilities. The District Primary Education Program was launched in 1994 and its motto was universalisation of primary education. Its main features are universal access to primary education.It aims that primary education should be accessible to every children so they have started developing schools in the remote areas, and try to see to it that every children has enrolled in the education program. The program has been successful upto a certain extent. The operation program was started in 1987-88. The aim of this program is to improve human and physical resource availability in primary schools of India. According to this program every primary school should have at least two rooms, two teachers and essential teaching aids like blackboard, chalk, duster etc.Other important endeavors taken up by Indian government for the development of education in India includes: Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, Integrated Education for disabled children ,National Council of Educational Research and Training.

Further we have many categories of studies accordingly, some of them are as follows:

ENGINEERING: The bachelor of Engineering (BE) or bachelor of Technology (B Tech) is a four-year course. It has wide range of options. Some of them are:

Aeronautical and Aerospace engineering Agriculture engineering Computer engineering Electronic and electrical engineering Industrial engineering Marine engineering Mining engineering

MANAGEMENT:

In India education in management is one of the most sort out courses. The institutes, which impart education in management, are known as "Business Schools". In India management education is given at two levels, undergraduate and post-graduate. Undergraduate degree courses include BBA, BBS, BBM. Postgraduate degree course is known as MBA (Masters of Business Administration). Some of the important Business schools of India are:Indian Institute of Management, AhmedabadIndian Institute of Management, BangaloreIndian Institute of Management, KolkataIndian Institute of Management, LucknowIndian Institute of Management, IndoreFaculty of Management Studies, DelhiIndian Institute of Foreign Trade, DelhiSymbiosis, PuneJBIMS, MumbaiXLRI, Jamshedpur

Some important facts about Indian education:

Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to the world and 'charaka' is known as the father of Ayurveda. He developed this system some 2500 years back.

Takshila was the first university of world established in 700 B.C. Nalanda University, built in 4 AD, was considered to be the honor of

ancient Indian system of education as it was one of the best Universities of its time in the subcontinent.

Indian language Sanskrit is considered to be the mother of many modern languages of world.

Place value system was developed in India in 100 B.C. India was the country, which invented number system. Aryabhatta, the Indian scientist, invented digit zero. Trigonometry, algebra and calculus studies were originated in India.

Thus we can say hat the Indian Education System has seen a drastic change and improvement in the recent years and helped out to remove illietarcy and provide education to every person in every nook and corner of the country.We fouther believe that the system would more improve in a better and advanced way and help to eradicate illiteracy in India.