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Access and Equity to Education in India through Synergy of Conventional and ODL Systems: A Step towards Democratization of Education - Purnendu TRIPATHI, Siran MUKERJI

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Author:	Purnendu TRIPATHI, Siran MUKERJI
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Abstract India has witnessed tremendous development in educating and training its vast human resource of over one billion through sustained effort of conventional and distance mode of education. In pursuit of making Right to Education a reality, the Government has been initiating efforts for developing the educational infrastructure and training human capital. Consequently, the Country with a literacy rate of 64.84%, has 767520, 274731 and 152049 schools along with 12 open schools at primary, middle and secondary/ higher secondary levels catering to 130.8, 51.2 and 37.1 million students respectively. At higher education level, 13578 colleges and 407 universities along with 106 distance education institutions address needs of 11.7 million students. These institutions of learning, in true sense have been instrumental in educating the vast human resource of over one billion but democratization of education i.e. access and equity to education is still a dream to be realized. This paper endeavours to explore the achievements so far and identify the challenges and constraints that have prevented the country to achieve the goal of universalisation of education and high level of literacy.
Keywords universalisation, access, equity, democratization of education

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