Education System in India

 

              Indian Student : Rethinking the Indian Education System

 

                  According to PIB(Press Information Bureau), India's school education system serves 24.8 crore students across 14.72 lakh schools with 98 lakh teachers. From a survey by CareMe Health, it was revealed that over 65% of students reported experiencing stress due to their academics. Mental health for students learning in our country has become a wistful story which can't be shared with anyone due to multiple reasons of their own which makes them fidgety and which leads them to emotional isolation  . A girl studying in Jalgaon preparing for NEET examination reported  that she feels constant stress due to not sharing that multiple reasons causing her stress. Why would  a person will stop  to share things with his own friend? Is it that people are not understanding the situation  of student's mental health? Or there are any peculiarities and deeper reasons behind this mental health issue? The students I have met, the friends of my own, can't share their mental health issues with me. The reason behind this is subtle that the students studying in 2025 have changed to a greater extent. In 2025, students know how to manage stress, fear of failure, anxiety and depression and also how to overcome with them. But there's a quiet challenge we should take into account  that students want to do it all by themselves, all alone. They want to fight with their battles alone , they don’t prefer to ask for help . This  thing may  scandalize half of the population of our country. When we get acquainted with these facts, they are really obscure. The main reason behind this stress is students are not able to make someone understand their reasons for the stress due to our bewildering and piqued Indian education system. Because the education system in which my all brothers and sisters across India are learning have never been taught by anyone the vanity of communication skills and if there was such curriculum regarding communication skills, it was vanished before it could reach the students of villages and the students studying in teir 3 and teir 4 schools or some of the private schools. The grim reality behind this is that whenever a new policy, a new change regarding our education publishes or it is taken into practice , it has never been made for a ‘Compulsory rule’  for every school or even college and changes always begins in schools from Pune or Mumbai and other cities never enjoys the total and perfect benefit caused due to these newly generated policies, the students studying here never enjoys the intended benefits .

                 When we talk about great people, they achieved a lot many things in an elated manner during their years of studying and graduation despite being the part of our education system. They learned things in my country, they grew and they touched the sky. But what if a student  is trying so hard to achieve those same heights; which they had reached so that he or she will be the new generation of great people, will never reach that height because he or she being pissed off due to our education system. This student could be someone preparing for IIT-JEE like exams. NIMH(National Institute of Mental Health) says the teen brain has an amazing ability to adapt and respond to new experiences and situations which are the necessities for innovation and I am confident about the impassive even being receptive Indian students will love something like innovation and this innovation by young minds will be a benediction for the society. But when I brood over this idea, I remember the catastrophic situation of the teen trapped in this  system. The teen here is despised of giving himself completely to an entrance exam just to spend 4 years of life in a prestigious institute without any sense of innovation and elegance to achieve excellence during the preparation of such examinations . Not every teen but 90% of teens, the JEE journey could be a deplorable section of life for most of the students as this journey could be emotionally draining and mentally taxing for 99% of winners and failures of this battlefield . IITs are good colleges, they are indeed perfect in the immaculate thoughts of students. But when questions rises on the topic concerning IIT, why we all just say” Increase the seats of IITs”, why we never demands for “Let's create equal opportunities in every college of India”. Frankly, I’m not speaking about the 2.5 crore packages in IITs but at least we should aim to provide good facilities, education ,teachers and most importantly opportunities  for the students studying for their respective graduation programs in India. The system doesn't need a brisk change but needs awareness for that particular section  because innovations are still taking place, people are achieving even being an non IITian , but the changes which are happening because of them are meagre for our population and also for  the upcoming  generations .                                                     

                           Generally, everyone criticizes the syllabus portion when awareness is raised regarding  the education system. The first word they can say is “Ohh, the syllabus” . In my opinion , syllabus is not an issue . It just needs a 5% of attention. I’m a 12th pass student and I can say assuredly that the textbooks till 12th are designed in a endeared manner . The syllabus is outdated is a myth. When I see books aligned with the NEP policy, syllabus remains no more a problem but it needs attention that the state board textbooks and curriculum should also follow the same. We need not to have a drastic change in syllabus but we need to feel a small change caused by long term efforts.                   

         Education is a process of learning and acquiring knowledge, skills, values and beliefs through formal and informal instruction. The education system is the backbone of any society, encompassing all institutions, policies and practices that deliver formal education to an individual so that he or she could be able to make a change in societies and they would lead to an independent life. Programs like NEP(National Education Policy) and Pariksha Pe Charcha are helping students formally and informally with their education, but they are not enough. They are making a change possible for some set of students, but we need a change possible for not every student, but minimum of  95% of students, learning in tier 1, tier 2 and tier 3, 4, including every corner of India. We don't need a system that teaches us to be averted, successful and disconsolate, but we need a system that teaches students to take risks, the system that aims to make us a better person in life. There are a lot of issues which will create a turmoil in this newspaper and will acquire the whole newspaper if I continue. To all reading this and aiming for a change in the Indian education system, we don't need a feeble, ruffled and suppler big change,  the students need a change which will be beneficial for them in every manner and the first step to create this change is that we need to understand the root problem and create a gash awareness about it and then proceeding for the solution by consistent efforts. It will take time but it is possible. And to all those who often complaint about this system and feels things shouldn’t be like this , my advice would be aim for excellence and you’ll find your way . The change which will be beneficial for a large scale community of young learners in India is necessary in 2025.

Siddhi.N.