Accessing Education in India: Challenges Faced by Rural Children

Abstract

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 4 has proposed three educational objectives which incorporate access to, equity in, and quality of learning. But even after its freedom, the Indian education system is still struggling to provide quality education to a large extent in rural areas. Although the literacy rate has increased there is a significant gender disparity where women are being abandoned from studying as education will not bring any productivity for them. The increasing unemployment rate, lack of awareness among family members, early marriage of girl child, insufficient number of school teachers, and financial crisis are the major road blockers for the rural children from seeking quality education. The rural schools teaching mechanisms are not technology-aided, contributing to other challenges rural children face. The efforts taken by government entities or extension service providers to promote efficient learning have also failed to make a satisfactory impact. The study attempted to explore different hindrances prevailing in the rural educational system and to propose some better approaches to diminish those issues.