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Education in India
Education in India Educational
oversight
HRD Minister Ministry of HRD
Arjun Singh
National education budget
• Discretionary
• Mandatory Rs.24,115 crore
(2006-07)
Primary language(s) of education
English, Other regional languages
Literacy (2001)
• Men
• Women 64.8 %
75.3 %
53.7 %
Enrollment1 (2001-02)
• Primary (I-V)
• Mid/Upper Prim. (VI-VIII)
• Higher Secondary (IX-X) 189.2
million
113.9 million
44.8 million
30.5 million
1. doesn't include kindergarten
enrollment
India has been a major seat of
learning for thousands of years,
dating back to ancient seats of
learning like Nalanda. In modern
times, Indian educational
institutions (such as the IITs, IISc,
IIMs, NITs,AIIMS, ISI, BITS, and ISB)
are well known worldwide. India,
being a developing nation, struggles
with challenges in its primary
education and strives to reach 100%
literacy. Universal Compulsory
Primary Education, with its
challenges of keeping poor children
in school and maintaining quality of
education in rural areas, has been
difficult to achieve (Kerala is an
Indian state to reach this goal so
far). All levels of education in
India, from primary to higher
education, are overseen by the
Ministry of Human Resource
Development (Department of Higher
Education (India) and Department of
School Education and Literacy), and
heavily subsidized by the Indian
government, though there is a move
to make higher education partially
self-financing. The Indian
Government is considering to allow
100% foreign direct investment in
Higher Education.[1]
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