With the new administration of Obama, there are funds made available for education and trainings particularly for moms. There are mothers and single mothers who are currently working but their present job do not sustain all their family’s needs.

Some moms are planning to enhance their education to have qualifications they can take hold for employment. And there are moms as well that were laid off from their jobs because of the present economic condition. With the support the government is giving, moms could fight all of these problems by applying for the program.

The president included this program as one of his priority to help moms since he experienced and witnessed personally what mothers can do when they become professionals. Not only that educated moms are being looked up to by their kids but also their contributions to the society in general make a difference. It has been observed and shown that mothers who are in better condition because they were able to complete their studies become more involved and concern with the community they belong and with the society in general.

By earning a college degree, you will become competitive at the time you are ready to join workforce and you have a higher chance of getting into a nicer position with salary that will bring comfort to your family’s lives.

For mothers who are interested to study and be involved in the field of medical technology, they can apply for the billion endowment and loans offered by the Health Information Technology Economic and Clinical Health.

Financial assistance from certain private and public groups for your education could be found if you just spend some of your time looking for them. It is important to consider several grants since you may not be qualified to some scholarship programs you have applied, however, finding these grants can be easy if you are determined to step into college and experience the joys of having a college diploma.

Education in India isn’t something a new concept. It was always an integral part of the very foundation of the Indian society. With modern India, education too has taken a giant leap which has captured global attention not because of the number of illiterates the country has but the quality of education system it has evolved. The Indian economy has observed an immense growth in the recent past as an effect of the flourishing literacy rate in the country. With the history stretched back to the times of Vedas, Puranas, Ayurveda, Yoga, Arthasahtra…extending from formal education under the Gurukul system to the modern new age eLearning concept, India has for sure has travelled an exhaustive journey crossing each milestone.

It would be extremely interesting to understand and analyze the present and future developments of the educational scenario in India.

Education in India

The present statistics states that primary education has crossed the mark of approximately two-third of the total population. Out of which, 40% of the population is illiterate and only 20% of the students go to schools. Since time immemorial, discrimination based on caste and gender has always been a major deterrent when healthy development of the society is in question. So to avoid such prejudice, the Indian Constitution has made elementary education a fundamental right for every child falling between the age group of 6 to 14 years. According to the 2001 census, the sum total of literacy rate in India is 65.38% where the female literacy rate is only of 54.16%.  With the fact that only 59.4% of rural population is literate compared to 80.3% of the urban population, there is a humongous gap between rural and urban literacy rate.

University Grants Commission (UGC) has been established by the Indian government to accelerate higher education system in the country. The chief role of UGC lies in controlling and co-coordinating the standards of higher education in the country.

Current Scenario

With a view to promote elementary education in the country, the Indian government has also prohibited child labor to protect children from working under unhygienic conditions. However, both free education and ban on child labor are difficult to be enforced simultaneously due to poor economic disparity and social conditions. Moreover, shortage of adequate resources and lack of political support are some of the reasons due to which the system has been adversely affected by the gaps that include high teacher-student ratio, poor infrastructure and insufficient teacher training. In fact, professionals from established institutes are often called to support vocational training for these kids.

The government has initiated Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) in 2001 with a view to provide instigate the education system and make its reach wider and more accessible to every child. The program focuses specially on girls and children with challenged social or financial backgrounds. In order to aid children firmer their grip in the computer sector as well, special schools are being set up in the rural areas.

Education for the Marginalized in India

Apart from Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, the government has also introduced reservation system where 7.5% seats in the higher educational institutes are reserved for the Schedule Tribes (ST), 15% for the Scheduled Castes (SC) and 27% for the non creamy layers of the Other Backward Classes (OBCs). Efforts are also being made to improve the education accessibility for the women section. The growing acknowledgment of concepts like eLearning and distance education courses along with expansion of the Open University system is also contributing a lot in standardizing education in India.

However, in spite ofconstant efforts being put forth to develop qualitative education system in India, there are still some major loopholes and widespread prejudices. With renewed emphasis laid on the education sector in the 11th five year plan and increased expenditure in both primary and secondary education, this can eventually act as an analgesic for the chronic Indian educational system.

The Akshaya Patra Foundation is an organization with the vision that no child shall be deprived of education because of hunger. Akshaya Patra is one of the world’s largest NGO-run midday meal programs, feeding 1.2 million children each day in over 7,000 schools through 19 kitchens in eight states in India. A public-private partnership, Akshaya Patra combines good management, innovative technology and smart engineering to deliver school lunch at a fraction of the cost of similar programs in other parts of the world. It costs to feed a child daily for the entire school year. With an average government subsidy of 50 percent, feeds two children. This meal gives these children an incentive to come to school, stay in school and provides them with the necessary nutrients they need to develop their cognitive abilities to focus on learning. The organization also sources its food stocks from local markets, thereby reducing costs associated with transportation and food spoilage while supporting the local economy.

In a short time, the foundation has grown to become the largest, and certainly most innovative, school lunch program in the world. Akshaya Patra is a great example of what can be accomplished when the public sector, private sector and civic society collaborate– a cost effective, scalable solution with high quality service delivery. After reaching its goal of feeding one million children each school day, Akshaya Patra’s next milestone is to serve 5 million children daily by 2020. For more information,

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