Poverty and Underdevelopment of India

Expansion of education is closely related to idealistic views of democracy. In developing and wealthy nations, education is valued because it helps the individual mind to develop capabilities. In contrast, education has also been seen as a way to promote equality. Having access to public education, in theory, has the potential to reduce poverty and promote equality. If all are entitled to the same public education, not to mention they are required by law, why do school systems seem segregate their students? Researchers have searched for the answer and have theorized that economic background, tracking, and hidden curriculum are a few things that help contribute to the imaginary lines drawn between students in society.

If you think about it, how does it make sense that the people that will eventually begin running your country aren’t getting proper education? Most children in India are child laborers so when it comes time for someone else to be in charge and “call the shots” they aren’t really going to know what they are doing because they either never got an education period or didn’t get a good one. It’s not fair nor is it right that children are missing out on an education because it’s so hard to provide for their families. I can understand how sometimes a family member dies and then it cost the family a lot of money and then the kids have to start working to help the remaining family to survive. These things happen, it’s part of life however a child shouldn’t have to sacrifice ALL of their education. "It is only half past seven o'clock in the morning. Boys of his age should be eating breakfast and getting ready for school," (Mr.Coal, paragraph 5.) The working hours should be a bit more flexible. By that I mean that they shouldn’t been during school hours, or maybe at least only taking a few of hours from

Throughout the world, there have been continuous attempts to reform education at all levels. With different causes that are deeply rooted in history, society, and culture, this inequality is difficult to eradicate. Although difficult, education is vital to society’s movement forward. It promotes “citizenship, identity, equality of opportunity and social inclusion, social cohesion as well as economic growth and employment” and for these reasons, equality should be promoted (Shrivastava,67).

These chapters I’m so interesting about a poverty of Indian tribes. After I read these chapters I know it very difficult for Indians people to services because they don’t have many jobs that provide a standard salary, don’t have a good education, don’t have a good health services, and so on. A good example for describes about a poverty of Indians is Junior and his family. Junior was born with water on his brain and he surgeries when he was six months old. This surgery was caused of his physical problem. He ended up with 42 teeth and normally human have only 32 teeth, which mean he has 10 extra teeth. Also, he needs to pull out all extra teeth in one day because Indians dental health services works on once day for a year. Moreover, the white dentists only gave him a halt of the Novocain because they believed that Indians people only felt halt as much pain as white people did.

Furthermore, equality of people is not necessarily derived even with similar educations. This can be detected by the lack of opportunities between the different classes of people and the discrimination among genders for decades. Both of which display the on-going presence of inequality even when schooling is

Research has made clear that a poorly educated population will eventually be forced to rely on future social investments such as social services and adult literacy (Ochoa, 2006). Therefore, investment in education is motivated by the assumption that empowerment will stimulate the economy in the form of tax dollars, spending power, and other forms of participation in society (Suárez-Orozco, Suárez-Orozco, & Todorova, 2008).

All of these milestones are made concrete within an educational environment. Unfortunately, Access to education is a primary issue in developing India for school age females. Currently, according to Nitkya Rao, “there is a huge gender gap in educational attainment, with 75 per cent of women being non-literate or just literate as compared to 27 percent of the men”(Rao). The gender gap within the education system sets the illegitimate belief that women insufficient, and attaining education would have no benefit to the society as a whole. There are many factors controlling the access of education: geography, socio-cultural factors, health and furthermore political and/or administrative support.

Poverty can be defined as“the inability to acquire enough money to meet basic needs including food, clothing and shelter” (Gosselin,2009). Poverty is a constant problem throughout the world accompanied with “deleterious impacts on almost all aspects of family life and outcomes for children”(Ravallion,1992). Poverty is a main factor that affects normal human growth and development in a variety of ways, primarily impacting children’s early development, social behaviour, health, and self worth.

In 2009, the government made a policy that every children age from 6-14 must get education. Every private school has 25% of spare for those who are poor. However, the quality of public education system is poor and undeveloped. A quarter of teachers in public education are not teaching properly, and do not even present in the classroom. Students who are not able to go to high quality private school cannot get good quality education (Nikita Setia.n.p.). As a result, the economy of India is very poor and not growing for several years (BBC news.n.p.). India remains as developing country even though the government invests some money to the public education. The money is just wasted and not used efficiently. The social mobility of two of the lowest castes is low. Only 9% of them increase their social ladder while 25% of forward class move up to higher social class (Kunal Sen.n.p.). It shows how the education quality is different with the public school and private school. India needs better quality education to make economic

Poverty on education is not a unusual problem that the world is currently facing. According to H. George “ This fact－the great fact that poverty and all its concomitants show themselves in communities just as they develop into the conditions toward which material progress lends proves that the social difficulties existing wherever a certain stage of progress has been reached, do not arise from local circumstances, but are, is someway or another, engendered by progress itself.

In 1989 Jandhyala Tilak hypothesized that education may raise the overall level of income and that it may change the dispersion of income among groups of people in the journal titled “Rates of Return to Education and

Neglecting the role of education in emerging countries is one more commonly made mistake and low Human Development Index pointing out the limited possibilities of human resources has its negative impact on economic as well as on social processes in particular country. How educated residents are, determine the speed of economic growth, while shortage of accumulated human capital makes difficult to implement innovations and lack of adaptation of proven technologies, methods, and practices. The importance of human capital for economic development in general is widely accepted (cf. Bils & Klenow,2000; Krueger & Lindahl, 2001; Prichett, 2001; Romer, 1989). As concerning on education, implies more capable and productive workers, who in turn increase an economy’s output of goods and services. Well-educated human resources also help to make possible the absorption of advanced technologies from developed countries (Barro & Lee, 2001, p. 541). As a consequence, states lacking institutions which promote the demand for education have to give incentives for human capital accumulation. Human capital was the main factor to South Korea’s fast economic development. Investment in education was more than 7% of GDP and 2.8% was private sector’s investment that is the highest rate among OECD countries. But the same policy, investing in education to develop economic, was not as successful in different countries as in South-Korea; consequently the same policies can lead to different results and

With a 100% state-funded system in Finland, all students are equally entitled to receive education and a similar approach can prove beneficial for India where access to education is still a huge challenge for many children. (Bert Maes) The four hundred years of slavery that India was formed in and the caste system have lastingly affected its education system. (Deshpande) These oppressive systems

Education as a most precious gift from parents to their children starts from the family. When the family succeeds in teaching and impacting good values in their children, the country becomes a better place to live. But enriching offspring with education should be countrywide so that people from every parts and regions can get the ultimate outcome of it. It is generally believed that the basis for any true development must commence with the development of human resource. To get desirable human resource it needs basic structure (economic support). So, students are pioneers of every nation. To facilitate students properly some assisting pillars have been major issues for decades. To get educated students face some barriers which couldn’t turn them into human resource. Thus barriers occurs dropout, low literate rate and illiterate of students which occurs an unskilled nation.

In my Global Perspectives Project I will be talking about how India’s rich-poor divide affects it. I chose this subject because I truly find it fascinating how India’s poverty and wealth is so fart apart. India’s population escalates from multi million airs to an unbelievable amount of people under the poverty line. I believe that this issue can be solved but over centuries. Of course this isn’t the only problem in India but I find it the most intriguing. Another reason why India is fascinating is their incredible wide range of languages. “A total of 122 languages are spoken by more than 10,000 people. Hindi, Bengali, Telegu, Tamil, Marathi, Urduare are spoken by 50 million people or more. Hindi is the mother tongue of forty-one of the population. English is a subsidiary official language.”