Promoting Primary Education...

A Painted wall of a govt school illustrated a education drive in semi-urbal area...

The Constitution of India reiterates that the ‘State shall endeavour to provide early childhood care and education to all children until they complete the age of six years’. Despite these proclamations, a quick look at the situation in India and Karnataka shows that there is no comprehensive approach to child care.

Bringing up children has been considered the ‘private responsibility’ of the family in India. With industrialisation, migration, urbanisation and the decline of joint families, child care is increasingly becoming a pressing need. For families from the lower socio-economic classes, work is the only way to ensure survival, and leaving work in order to look after children is not an option. Children are left behind, sometimes in child care services, and more often to fend for themselves. Refer...

The beginning of modern education could be traced to the establishment of Free English School at Mysore in 1833 by the palace of Mysore (for the erstwhile Mysore area); of the two Marathi Vernacular schools at Dharwad and Hubli in 1826 by the Bombay Native School and School Book Society respectively (for the Belgaum area); of schools in Mangalore. More..