EDUCATION-The Price of Neglect

The Price of Neglect A Special Correspondent Maharashtra has been rocked by a series of scandals affecting the education system. While it has become customary to blame all the troubles on the proliferation of private coaching classes, the truth is that, in Maharashtra as much as elsewhere in the country, the government has methodically starved the education system of the necessary inputs teachers, buildings, books, laboratories, extra-mural aids. If this policy continues, the malpractices will persist and grow.