THE QUALITY OF EDUACTION IS BEING WORSE THAN PREVIOUS YEARS THE MERELY FOCUS OF GOVERNMENT IS TO REDUCE THE SALLYBUS RATHER THAN REDUCING STRESS OF EXAM ON CHILDREN.......

1. Uttam Shiksha - Enhancing the
quality of education
Winner of yuva sangam(2018)
Shadab khan
B-TECH CIVIL ENGINEERING -2014-2018
BABA SAHEB BHIMRAO AMBEDKAR UNIVERSITY LUCKNOW

2. STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS
Teachers Students
State Students’
Governement parents

3. Problem Statement in terms
of Stakeholders’ Challenges
TEACHERS:
- Teacher absenteeism due to lack of checks
and corruption
-Travel to schools in remote rural areas is tedious
- Lack of motivation to teach and lack of
teaching staff.
- Lack of incentive for putting in extra effort
- Extra administrative duties leading to over-
burdening of teachers
STUDENTS:
-High dropout rate because school
is oppressive/boring etc
- Low learning level because of bad pedagogy
GOVERNMENT: STUDENTS’ PARENTS:
-Frequent cases of bribery, corruption - Prefer to send kids to work
and red-tapism rather than school due to lack
of awareness
- Feel helpless due to lack of a
window for grievance redressal
relating to government school
functioning

4. PROPOSED SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEMS RELATED TO TEACHERS AND THEIR IMPACT:
Teacher absenteeism/ Travel to schools in remote rural areas is tedious
Hence, teachers prefer to bribe Basic Shiksha Adhikari and visit schools sporadically.
Proposed Solution:
• Travel allowance part of salary to be given in the form of monthly bus passes instead of cash.
• Provide last mile connectivity for teachers through local transport. Distribution of e-rickshaws can be done. It will
also generate employment for villagers.
Lack of motivation to teach
At the primary level the entire evaluation process is in the hands of the teacher so there is lack of accountability and teachers
put no effort in improving learning levels
Proposed Solution:
• Evaluation of students’ progress to be done by private organizations which specialize in independent evaluation. Example-
Gray Matters India, which has developed its own Indian Progressive Achievement Scale (IPAS) to monitor student learning
achievements longitudinally and to compare nationwide benchmarks.
• Make teaching a contractual affair with fixed annual learning targets to be achieved by their students. If the average
learning level is not hitting the mark, the teacher’s contract must be terminated.

5. Lack of incentive for putting in extra effort
The present system is such that even if a teacher puts in extra effort, there is nobody to recognize his or her
contribution and achievement. We need platforms where teachers could compete and gain better remuneration for
their enhanced efforts.
Proposed Solution:
• Awards for best performing school in various verticals- maths, science, sports, vocational training etc.
• Teachers who show year on year growth in results will be posted near home districts after the first 5 years.
Lack of teaching staff affecting the quality of teaching
Due to the strict educational qualifications of teachers, the supply of teachers is not meeting the demand. This leads to
low teacher-student ratio which adversely affects the quality of teaching.
Proposed Solution:
• Teachers with no B.Ed. degrees teaching at very low salaries in small private schools can be recruited for
remedial learning/after-school programmes in government schools at a competitive pay.

6. Extra administrative duties leading to over-burdening of teachers:
Following duties are cumbersome and a distraction from teaching. As a result syllabus cannot be completed on time and
students receive less attention. As these duties are often assigned to teachers who teach lower grades hence students
suffer the most in their crucial formative years:
• Filling registers manually as computers are dysfunctional or teachers are not well versed with using them
• Opening bank accounts for students so that money that students receive from the government for buying stationery
and uniforms is directly transferred to the students
• Census data collection
• Election duty prior to which teachers are also required to attend three to four days of training.
Proposed Solution:
• Hire temporary staff like interns (college and school students), part-timers etc for such work.
• Train teachers in using digital devices so that they can complete work faster, on-the-go and even from their homes.

7. PROPOSED SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS RELATED TO STUDENTS AND THEIR IMPACT:
High dropout rate because school is oppressive/boring etc:
Kids in villages often find the course content boring and unrelatable because they have to study about things they have
never seen and things that don’t affect them. Thus, often the objective merely becomes to pass exams rather than
enjoying the process of learning.
Proposed Solution:
• Employ Finnish model of education - School hours should be shorter. Shorter class-room hours and longer hours
for students to play. Teachers should spend more time on building curriculum.
• Employ foreign language-learning model employed by French and Russian Language institutes- Less emphasis on text
and more emphasis on movies, inter-village interaction, field trips to cities etc. since village kids need to see things before
they start learning about them.
Low learning level because of bad pedagogy:
The Indian Education system solely relies on classroom method of teaching. This is an obsolete practice since not all
students respond well to a classroom setting. Based on this form of teaching, students who respond well to text are
labelled as intelligent and students who do not respond well to this methodology are labelled as fools. This demotivates
children and lowers their learning levels further.
Proposed Solution:
• More experiential-learning based pedagogy. Using S4D methodology (Sports for Development). Upcoming Sports
like Ultimate Frisbee help in teaching values like gender-sensitization and conflict-resolution to kids.
• Introduction of e-book readers like kindle should be introduced in schools.

8. PROPOSED SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS RELATED TO THE GOVERNMENT AND THEIR IMPACT:
Frequent cases of bribery, corruption and red-tapism
Proposed Solution:
• The teachers will not be hired by village education committee. It will only send the requirement. The state public service
commission will do it.
• The government must mandate that the first five years of the service will be mandatorily in a different division of the
state away from home division. This will ensure that only those people take up the profession who are actually willing to
discharge their services honestly. Further, a mandate will prevent the designated officials from taking bribes to give
favourable postings.
PROPOSED SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS RELATED TO THE STUDENTS’ PARENTS AND
THEIR IMPACT:
Prefer to send kids to work rather than school due to lack of awareness:
Proposed Solution:
• Awareness drives, street plays etc to explain the importance of education to rural folks and encourage them to send
their kids to schools.
Lack of a window for grievance redressal relating to government school functioning
Proposed Solution:
• Periodic meetings with parents conducted by School Management Committees (SMC) for feedback and grievance redressal.

9. TECHNOLOGY & ALL-ROUND
DEVELOPMENT
technology
• Substituting printed books with e-
book readers will not just save costs in
the long-run but will also improve the
accessibility of students to a wider
collection of information.
• E-book readers will enable every
student to create her own
electronic library of books
• E-book readers will attract students
since today’s generation loves digital
devices
all-rounddevelopment
• Introduction of Ultimate Frisbee in
school-curriculum as it is the only
gender-mixed team sport. It will not just
be fun for children but will also teach
them values like teamspirit, fairness,
gender equality etc.
• To promote all-round development,
performing and visual arts should
also be made a compulsory part of the
school curriculum
• Improve the quality of schools by
providing basic amenities like
sanitation and drinking water
• Workshops on anti- sexual
harassment, menstrual hygiene etc.

10. POSSIBLE CHALLENGES IN IMPLEMENTATION
• Resistance to new rules by existing teachers
• Short-term logistical complexity
• Difficulty faced by teachers in the use of technology

11. References
• http://updes.up.nic.in/reports/Arthik_Samiks
ha_14-15.pdf#page=113
• http://www.dise.in/Downloads/Publications/
Documents/U-DISE-SchoolEducationInIndia-
2015-16.pdf#page=84
• http://mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload_files/mhrd/fil
es/document-reports/Part1.pdf