Disparate education system
Education, a basic human right, has yet remained as a privilege mainly to the well-off city dwellers and not the far-off villagers.
Reality shows that most of the villages of our country are devoid of quality institutions for primary & secondary education, let alone others. Majority of these are established through private efforts & then tend to be led by expenses from the 'local authority' in assistance with the government. They direly lack quality teachers, discipline & proper administration. As for example, teacher for a specific subject (doesn't matter what that is) remains absent for months or even the whole year & hence the 'gap' is 'made up' by teachers of any other subject. Even a teacher of sociology then can turn into a 'mathematician', or a teacher of 'Bengali' can turn into a teacher of 'English grammar'. In majority of these institutions, it takes almost two to three months from the onset of a new year to begin the classes in full swing (so called!).
Examinations also sometimes turn into irony as the 'question papers' are bought cheaply from any providing media & the 'answer sheets' are often checked out by 'senior students' instead of the teachers.
According to different local & national dailies it should be mentioned that managing committees of these institutions often include 'illiterate' people to take care of education(!). The ultimate effect can be seen after the publishing of results of public examinations where rural institutions always lag behind severely depicting the vastness of disparity in our education system.
It's high time for immediate effective measures to be taken to provide 'quality education' to the villages through innovative, pragmatic & realistic work-plans.
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