Education:

Education In India has a history stretching back to the ancient urban centres of learning at Taxila and Nalanda. Western education became ingrained into Indian society with the establishment of the British Raj. Education in the Republic of India falls under the control of both the central government and the states, with some responsibilities lying with the centre and the state having autonomy for others. The various articles of the Indian constitution provide for education as a fundamental right.

India has made huge progress in terms of increasing primary education attendance rate and expanding literacy to approximately two thirds of the population.[1] However, education is still far behind developing countries such as China or Thailand. Most children never attend secondary schools.[1] An optimistic estimate is that only one in five job-seekers in India has ever had any sort of vocational training.^[2]

World Bank statistics found that fewer than 40 percent of adolescents in India attend secondary schools.[1] The Economist reports that half of 10-year-old rural children could not read at a basic level, over 60% were unable to do division, and half dropped out by the age 14.[31]

Only one in ten young people have access to tertiary education.[1] Out of those who receive higher education, Mercer Consulting estimates that only a quarter of graduates are "employable".[32]