1.3 SIGNIFICANCE of THE PROBLEM:
The education has been conceived for ages as a means of transmitting to the child all that is required to equip him in skills and competencies to enable him to function in a society in the best possible manner. This has always been the main objective of education and relevant to all ages and societies. The principles of education not only involve imparting knowledge to the child, but it also involves development of the child’s critical awareness, cultural integration, aesthetic appreciation and moral and religious responsibilities. Education, therefore, focuses its attention on the child’s individual needs in all respects.
The society is always undergoing change in various aspects. The society expects the …show more content…
Education is not a cure for all the ills, it is also not the cause of the ills of the world, it is nevertheless is regarded as a key source of hope for a solution to the ills of society. This is essentially because education’s major concern is the creation of the right kind of man in the society. To achieve this objective, education will need all the help it can get from the Government, the domestic sector and the business and financial sectors. Then question arises- How do we fair in our task? Have we been able to give the kind of education we wanted? But, aptly one may ask that have we been able to provide education to all children of age 6-14 year since independence?
There are as many as 32 Articles and 28 entries in the Sixth and Seventh Schedules of the constitution which pertains to Education. But still after 55 years of compulsory education in India the state of Elementary Education is deplorable. In developing countries universalization of elementary education is the most crucial problem. The major areas of educational problem are wastage, stagnation, non-attendance and non-enrolment. According to Directorate of Education; Punjab “one-half of those who appear in the matriculation examination, as regular students, fail to …show more content…
Punjab is land of five rivers (Beas, Satluj, Ravi, Chenab and Jhelum). Punj means five and aab means water, so Punjab means land of five waters. Punjab (India) is divided into three parts: Majha, Malwa and Doaba. Majha is the area between Beas and Chenab; this part includes Lahore, Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Sialkote, Kasur, Lyallpur(Faisalabad),. Area of Malwa is southern Punjab; cities includedin this area are Ludhiana, Patiala, Faridkot, Ferozepur, Ambala, Karnal, Sangrur, Malerkotla, Shahabad, and Abohar. Area of Punjab that is between rivers of Beas and Satluj is called Doaba, major cities in this part of punjab are Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala and Nawan Shahr.
1.6 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
For fulfilling the target of universalisation of elementary education, the Central Government has launched new policy of education ‘SARVA SHIKSHA ABHIYAN’. This Abhiyan set up the following targets-
(1) By the year 2003, to make sure the attendance of the children of 6- 14 age group in schools.
(2) By the year 2007, to enable the students of 6-14 age group to complete their five-year school education.
(3) Upto 2010, to enable the students of the 6-14 age group to complete their eight year schooling.
(4) To remove the drop outs from the Ist to 8th class school education.
(5) And to remove all kind of discriminations as girls-boys, rural-urban and upper and lower caste and provide equal rights of education to all children without any
The education has been conceived for ages as a means of transmitting to the child all that is required to equip him in skills and competencies to enable him to function in a society in the best possible manner. This has always been the main objective of education and relevant to all ages and societies. The principles of education not only involve imparting knowledge to the child, but it also involves development of the child’s critical awareness, cultural integration, aesthetic appreciation and moral and religious responsibilities. Education, therefore, focuses its attention on the child’s individual needs in all respects.
The society is always undergoing change in various aspects. The society expects the …show more content…
Education is not a cure for all the ills, it is also not the cause of the ills of the world, it is nevertheless is regarded as a key source of hope for a solution to the ills of society. This is essentially because education’s major concern is the creation of the right kind of man in the society. To achieve this objective, education will need all the help it can get from the Government, the domestic sector and the business and financial sectors. Then question arises- How do we fair in our task? Have we been able to give the kind of education we wanted? But, aptly one may ask that have we been able to provide education to all children of age 6-14 year since independence?
There are as many as 32 Articles and 28 entries in the Sixth and Seventh Schedules of the constitution which pertains to Education. But still after 55 years of compulsory education in India the state of Elementary Education is deplorable. In developing countries universalization of elementary education is the most crucial problem. The major areas of educational problem are wastage, stagnation, non-attendance and non-enrolment. According to Directorate of Education; Punjab “one-half of those who appear in the matriculation examination, as regular students, fail to …show more content…
Punjab is land of five rivers (Beas, Satluj, Ravi, Chenab and Jhelum). Punj means five and aab means water, so Punjab means land of five waters. Punjab (India) is divided into three parts: Majha, Malwa and Doaba. Majha is the area between Beas and Chenab; this part includes Lahore, Amritsar, Gurdaspur, Sialkote, Kasur, Lyallpur(Faisalabad),. Area of Malwa is southern Punjab; cities includedin this area are Ludhiana, Patiala, Faridkot, Ferozepur, Ambala, Karnal, Sangrur, Malerkotla, Shahabad, and Abohar. Area of Punjab that is between rivers of Beas and Satluj is called Doaba, major cities in this part of punjab are Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala and Nawan Shahr.
1.6 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
For fulfilling the target of universalisation of elementary education, the Central Government has launched new policy of education ‘SARVA SHIKSHA ABHIYAN’. This Abhiyan set up the following targets-
(1) By the year 2003, to make sure the attendance of the children of 6- 14 age group in schools.
(2) By the year 2007, to enable the students of 6-14 age group to complete their five-year school education.
(3) Upto 2010, to enable the students of the 6-14 age group to complete their eight year schooling.
(4) To remove the drop outs from the Ist to 8th class school education.
(5) And to remove all kind of discriminations as girls-boys, rural-urban and upper and lower caste and provide equal rights of education to all children without any