Tell about Indian Education System

There is a national organization that plays a key role in developing policies and programmes, called the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) that prepares a National Curriculum Framework.

Each state has its counterpart called the State Council for Educational Research and Training (SCERT).

These are the bodies that essentially propose educational strategies, curricula, pedagogical schemes and evaluation methodologies to the states' departments of education.

But the states have considerable freedom in implementing the education system.

The National Policy on Education, 1986 and the Programme of Action (POA) 1992 envisaged free and compulsory education of satisfactory quality for all children below 14 years before the 21st Century.

The government committed to earmark 6% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for education,

The government committed to earmark 6% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for education,

half of which would be spent on primary education. The expenditure on Education as a percentage of GDP also rose from 0.7 per cent in 1951-52 to about 3.6 per cent in 1997-98.

The school system in India has four levels: lower primary (age 6 to 10), upper primary (11 and 12), high (13 to 15) and higher secondary (17 and 18).

Students throughout the country have to learn three languages (namely, English, Hindi and their mother tongue) except in regions where Hindi is the mother tongue and in some streams as discussed below.

There are mainly three streams in school education in India.

Students throughout the country have to learn three languages (namely, English, Hindi and their mother tongue) except in regions where Hindi is the mother tongue and in some streams as discussed below.

There is some amount of specialization possible at the higher secondary level.

The CBSE also has 141 affiliated schools in 21 other countries mainly catering to the needs of the Indian population there.

They have a certain amount of freedom in what they teach in lower classes. The

a number of private schools in the country follow the CBSE syllabus though they may use different text books and follow different teaching schedules.

Kendriya Vidyalayas admit other children also if seats are available. All of them follow textbooks written and published by the NCERT. In addition to these government-run schools

One subject (Social Studies, consisting of History, Geography and Civics) is always taught in Hindi, and other subjects in English, in these schools.

they follow a common schedule so that a student going from one school to another on a particular day will hardly see any difference in what is being taught.

Kendriya Vidyalayas admit other children also if seats are available. All of them follow textbooks written and published by the NCERT.

One subject (Social Studies, consisting of History, Geography and Civics) is always taught in Hindi, and other subjects in English, in these schools

One subject (Social Studies, consisting of History, Geography and Civics) is always taught in Hindi, and other subjects in English, in these schools

Kendriya Vidyalayas admit other children also if seats are available.

of them follow textbooks written and published by the NCERT. In addition to these government-run schools, a number of private schools in the country follow the CBSE syllabus

they may use different text books and follow different teaching schedules. They have a certain amount of freedom in what they teach in lower classes. The CBSE also has 141 affiliated schools in 21 other countries mainly catering to the needs of the Indian population there