Notes on Education

  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mt._Nanda_Devi.jpg This note comments on a new higher education initiative in India, Pradhan Mantri Research Fellowships, which will be administered at IITs and other excellent institutes of higher Education in India as reported in the daily newspaper Times of India today.   As a deep IITian this author is certain that students will not call it by that name or PMRF and make up their own friendlier nick name for it. May I propose one here, Namo Prakash Fellowships since this proposal appears to be result of the Honourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and his brilliant education minister the Right Honourable Shri Prakash Javedkar. At the route of success of nations through human history has been the existence of higher education institutions of excellence. Thus while it were the Buddhist Universities led by Nalanda in India during its golden age, it has been Universities of Oxford and Cambridge during the British ...

  M ahatma Gandhi had said that India cannot progress in a true sense until its villages progress. The majority of Indians still live in its villages and they are in a sense the soul of the nation. In recent times Prime Minister Narendra Modi has revived this theme and expressed the desire to begin with model villages called Adarsh Grams. For various reasons the scheme has not taken off due to various constraints among them budgetary ones. A way to overcome this is to combine infrastructure that already exists in villages with other needs of a village. One such is the post office that has now been increasingly used for essential banking needs as well as some other government services such as the issue of Adhhar cards. A school is also an essential infrastructure in villages and it too can be provided to give more services to villagers in a way that improves both school and village life. The services that a school can provide in a village are: Treated drinki...

  The future of a nation lies in how its children are educated S ince independence from British, there has been much governance deficit in India and the quality of things a government is supposed to do such as water and electricity supply, health and education, roads and sanitation etc.has been poor in many parts of India. While many of these areas may not have a long term impact, one thing that surely does is education because this influences a human for life, even his children, and thus the future of a nation is adversely affected if education is poor. While the quality of most government run schools has been poor, government personnel have circumvented the difficulty by putting there own children in more expensive privately run schools that offer a better quality of education. The family that ruled India most since independence, the Gandhi family educated their children in the most expensive schools designed by the British in India and also abroad. These are howe...