Yesterday I already started writing why the illiteracy rate is so high in many states of India, including ours, Uttar Pradesh. Today I want to write a bit more about those reasons.
I explained that people in some states, especially in rural areas hardly have any employment offers apart from farm labour, even if they have higher education. This of course makes many doubt the sense of studying and learning. The only possibility in areas where the economy is not strong enough to offer other employment, are government jobs. There is however a lot of corruption in many local government bodies which means that you need to bribe someone in order to get a job. If you are poor and don’t have the money to offer a bribe, you won’t get the job. Especially the poor however would need the outlook on a good job as an encouragement to study.
Corruption is a big problem, also in the field of education. The Indian government recently had a campaign with the name ‘Education for All’ to support education of poor children. They sent books to each district and city in order to supply them to government schools which should then give the books to poor students free of cost. In this way, students whose families are too poor to buy books for the school year would not need to drop out just for this reason. The educational department of the city government of Mainpuri, not far from us in U.P., had another idea: they simply called a local junk dealer, had him weigh the packages of books and sold the paper to him by weight without even opening the packs, putting the money in their own pockets. We read in our local newspaper that an anonymous source had reported this to higher district officials who then raided the junk dealer’s shop and found the books. Investigations have started but usually this kind of investigations doesn’t bring any big results. This time and in this city they got to know about the selling of books but how many times before may this already have happened in many other cities, too?
As long as the government officials and workers, even those people who work in the educational department, have no interest in helping children to learn, it will be very difficult to make a change. We need some more altruism, some more feeling and compassion for the young ones who all want to have equal chances for a better future.
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Unfortunately we hear this here so many times from countries like India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The police and government officers have a very small salary and this is how they seem to have the need to earn some extra money. In a poor country this is normal and I think it is understandable, too. We need to have pity with these people, too, although they do bad for the children.
Sabrina, it is not at all like this! These government officers have a much higher salary than the parents of the children of whom they stole the books! You need to see it as it is: they are cheating poor children. It is a crime and it is not excusable with their poor state. They have a job and it is paying them salary. Now they should do it properly.
It is crucial that we educate these officials as well. We must share our vision!! Through understanding that the world becomes a more pleasant place for all we can recruit the government officials who are living in a mind state of lack. When they know that the children they educate will be enhancing their community with their creative ideas, innovative developments and products, etc. rather than seeing these children as competition for scarce resources the government officials will see them for the truth of what they are–the advancements of the future, better society.
Educators these days are not interested in educating people ,generally.I find them picky, and particular about those who can pamper their own tastes and habits.
Sorry to comment here,but I could not control my self without writing.I think If in a big room 200 peoples are living and only 20 breads are available then it is bound that everyone will be corrupt,cunning and irreligious .some individual can be honest and spiritual because of his own nature,conditioning and personality.India should control population,change in education pattern and should have more federal system than quasi-federal in some areas.
I agree that in general hardship, everybody first of all looks for himself. The point is however that these officers have a job and get a monthly payment whereas these children will never have a chance for such a job if they steal their books because they simply cannot go to school without that.So if there are 200 people in a room, those 50 of them who get bread anyway each month should be compassionate enough to give it to others instead of taking it all for themselves.
But of course, in India a lot still needs to change in order to make sure that there are not only 20 pieces of bread…