This document proposes solutions to enhance the quality of primary education in India. It identifies key problems with the current system such as distance to schools, lack of funding, and poor infrastructure. The proposed solutions include providing pick-up and drop-off services for students, implementing teacher training programs, and establishing regional administrative centers to improve monitoring. The impact would be increased student participation, heightened awareness among parents, and ensured quality of education infrastructure. Challenges to implementation include changing rural mindsets and ensuring transparency at all levels of the education system.

1. Stepping Stones: Enhancing The Quality Of
Primary Education
SUDIPTA SAHA
ADITYA KUMAR
PRATEEK NARULA
RAKSHIT RAKHI
RITIKA GOPALIA
Branch
COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINNERING (FINAL YEAR)
From
MAHATMA GANDHI COLLEGE OF ENGINNERING AND TECHNOLOGY,NOIDA
MAHAMAYA TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

2. INDEX
 Introduction
 Problem statement
 Proposed solution
 Implementation of the solution
 Impact of the solution
 Challenges and Mitigation Factors
 Appendix

3. INTRODUCTION
 India has made progress in terms of increasing
the primary education attendance rate and
expanding literacy to approximately three
quarters of the population.
 India's improved education system is often
cited as one of the main contributors to
the economic rise of India.
 The major problem is that about “4%” of total
Indian children never go to school in which
58% go to class 5th and about 90% don't go to
college.

4. LOOPHOLES
 [1]Distance of schools from homes.(Published By Times
Of India April 18 2013)
 Mentality of rural population for letting the children to
go school.
 Discrimination done in Indian society on the basis of
gender.
 Limited and insufficient income resources of rural
families.
 Improper funding management.
 Under constructed or poor infrastructure.
 Unsatisfactory quality of teachers.
 BRAND value of governments schools deteriorating,
improper promotions of government schools.

5. 0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Govt Schools
Pvt Schools
[2]Rural all India: Proportion of children
in Std 3 who can read at least Std 1
level text, by year
The private education market in India was 5% and
in terms of value was estimated to be worth US$40
billion in 2008 but had increased to US$68–70
billion by 2012.
2004 2008
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Revenues
Revenues Linear (Revenues) Linear (Revenues)
STATISTICAL REPORTS

6. REFORMS
 Procuring pick and drop service in rural areas for
schools.
 Regular sessions for teachers and seminars for students.
 Creating a community of parents of existing students to
spread goodwill among their peers.
 Regular child counseling sessions.
 Organizing student sensitivity workshops for school
teachers and staff.
 Focus more on audio-visual learning rather than rot
learning.
 Free and compulsory education act has done well and
should be implemented with more intensity.

7. REFORMS
 Uninformed surveys and inspection of schools.
 Setting up regional centres in districts for better
administration and procurement of facilities.
 Privatisation of Selection committee of school staff.
 Installation of automated attendance machines in
schools(Biometric devices).
 Set up of district level bodies to monitor the proper
and efficient execution of Government
policies(specially tribal population).

8. IMPLEMENTATION
 Impart knowledge on why and how education is
important.
 Faculty assessment.
 Free primary education for all.
 Human values education to all.
 Biometric/RFID techniques to ensure teacher's
presence.
 Regional centre for monitoring.
 Seminars, workshops & sessions for students and
faculty.
 Technology based education(e-learning facility).

9. IMPACT
 Pick and Drop service ensures maximum
student participation.
 Parent’s community spreads awareness
among their peers at a personal level.
 Sensitivity workshops: Making education
reachable and simple for the gifted children.
 Inspection and regional centers: Ensuring the
quality of infrastructure and education.

10.  Selection committee for staff: Ensures
standard quality of selected staff.
 District level body: Ensure that all existing and
upcoming educational polices reach and
function well for Rural and Tribal areas.
IMPACT

11. CHALLENGES
• The mentality of “More Hands To More Income” of
people.
• Lack of personal & political will to ensure the quality of
primary education.
• Transparency at every level.
• Convincing the rural masses and their wards about the
merits of primary education.
• The “theory of change” explains the push from within
the government as well as from outside to ensure the
timely provision of adequate inputs, and to point out
the urgent need to build institutions that support
schools and teachers.

12. APPENDIX
 Article published by Times Of India April 18 2013.
 Annual Status of Education Report(Rural) 2012,
17 Jan 2013.
 Improving the Standard and Quality of Primary
Education in Nigeria: A Case Study of Oyo and
Osun States, Sofowora Olaniyi Alaba Obafemi
Awolowo University, Nigeria.
 Mission 2014: Feeding the World
 Quality Primary Education: The potential to
Transform Society In a Single Generation.