The government's education expenditure as a percentage of GDP has never ever risen above 4.3% of GDP, despite the target of 6% having been set as far back as 1968 by the Kothari Commission

1. Major challenges of Education System in India
The government's education expenditure as a percentage of GDP has never ever
risen above 4.3% of GDP, despite the target of 6% having been set as far
back as 1968 by the Kothari Commission.
education system turns out millions of graduates every year
but the key challenges before the Government are:
Improving access and quality at all levels of education
Increasing funding in higher education
Improving Infrastructure
Improving Management
Improving literacy rates
Universalization of elementary education
Despite efforts to include all sections of the population into the Indian
education system, through various programmes and schemes, large numbers
of young people are still without schooling. It is true that enrollment in
primary education has increased (at least 35 million) but as many as 60 millions
of children under the age group 6–14 years are still far from school. One of the
major problems is the non availability of schools within a reasonable
distance. Many remote areas of the country have no educational institute
at all. This difficulty should be overcome to improve the education system of
the country.
Improving the quality of education is another challenge before the government
to reach at the target. The quality should get international recognition in terms
of effectiveness of teaching, attainment level of the students, availability of
adequate teachers etc.
Other challenges are: inadequate school infrastructure, high teacher-student
absenteeism, large number of teacher vacancies, poor quality of education and
inadequate funds.
street children
and victims of riots and natural disasters, do not necessarily have access to
schools.
To raise the literacy rate, all sections of the society will have to realize the value
of education and hence should come forward to improve the Indian education
system.