The provision of quality elementary education as a fundamental right is a constitutional obligation of the state. What we need now is greater engagement with this system to make sure that it functions well and delivers efficiently; the solution does not lie in introducing free market relationships in schools.
The writer was director, elementary education, in the ministry of HRD, 2001-2006, and now works with the UN. Views are personal
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