Differentiation in education: as a problem of universalization of education
(DISCRIMINATION IN EDUCATION: AS A PROBLEM IN UNIVERSALIZATION OF EDUCATION)
Despite universalization in education being accepted as a national goal, the goal of universalization in education has not been fully achieved even today. In the revised National Education Policy of 1992, the resolution was also expressed that before the start of the 21st century, all children up to the age of 14 years in the country are free and compulsory and in terms of quality
Satisfactory education will be provided. But this goal could not be achieved despite the untiring efforts of the government. This implies that we must first overcome the obstacles in the path of universalization, one of the biggest obstacles is discriminating in education. Although this differentiation is prevalent in many forms in our Indian society, this discrimination is mainly caste and gender. This is the reason that whenever we want to know the development of any region or country, we indicate this by its literacy rate and especially with the literacy rate of both people. Our government has also strongly advocated 'education for all' in this direction and its focus is also on it. The result of these efforts is that the literacy rate has increased to 74.04% by 2011 as against the literacy rate of just 12% in 1947, but still India has not achieved what it should. Today, the main reason for this differentiation is the difference in the literacy rate of women and men from ground to sky. According to the 2011 census, the effective literacy rate of men is 82.14% and the literacy rate of women is only 65.46%. Although the literacy rate of women has increased significantly and the gap has also decreased, but this differentiation still remains.
Women make up 50% of the human resources of the country, but lack of education also snatches the opportunity to be a part of India's progress and development. From this point of view also, there is a difference in the education of women in urban and rural areas. The female literacy rate in cities is much higher than in rural areas. The Prime Minister of the country, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, while stating the importance of girl child education, said - "A boy's education is a man's education,
But the education of a girl is the education of the whole family. ”In the universalisation of education, this caste and gender-based discrimination has a great impact. In today's Indian society, girls are often sent to fewer schools than boys. His drop-out from school is also higher than boys. Private and English medium schools have a significantly lower percentage of girls than boys. One of the main reasons for this is the division of work of girls and boys. Why is it considered appropriate for girls to sit at home? It is often seen that mainly rural women are deprived of education due to family, economic and social reasons. Keeping this fact in mind, 'informal education' in the year 1979-80
