Gurushala

English

हिंदी

Report

Dear Diary Students of Rural Background

By Renuka Purohit

30 Jun 2021

Write for Us

India is a country of 1.3 billion people, where 67% of the Indian population lives in rural areas. Approx. 196 million elementary school-going children, out of that 146 million are enrolled in school, enrolled in rural schools (source: U-DISE 15-16). The good news is that almost all of these children are enrolled in school, enrollment of children for the age group 5 to 14 has been above 95% in rural India.

School education in rural India is mostly dependent on government and government-aided schools. For rural India journey of education is not easy, children from rural areas face many challenges till they finish their education. Few of them listed below.

Challenges for rural students:

Rural children go to school but the learning quality they receive not enough. Their foundation skills like reading and arithmetic are poor
Students from rural schools either have no access or lack access to advanced learning tools such as digital learning, computer education, non-academic books. As per the ASER 2018 report, 55.5% of students have never used computers
No parent's guidance. Since most of the students' parents are farmers, they do not have time to look after their kids' education
Rural children grow up looking at limited professions like farmers, daily laborers, teachers, doctors, police. There is a lack of resources to build their knowledge
Unlike their counterparts in big cities and towns, even finding a library or a cyber cafe for knowledge building is a struggle for rural children