India has very low literacy rate, and that is responsible for most of our social issues. With explosion of population, we have millions of uneducated people who can easily be manipulated. This is the reason we still see racial or religious issues taking front row in any election. Most of the people vote for caste and religion rather that candidate’s ability or development agenda. It’s not that they don’t want to, but due to lack of education or proper education, they just can’t judge the candidates based on merit. Similarly, honor killing, rape, dowry and all such social evils are also indirectly related to our education system. If you educate people from their childhood, and provide proper guidance abut such social evils, you should be able to minimize such problems, if not eradicate it. Our budget allocates less than 4% to Education sector. This is very less money to even take care of primary education in our vast country. Then we already have so many grants going out to ...
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