{"id":132859,"date":"2021-09-09T19:36:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T14:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=132859"},"modified":"2021-09-09T19:36:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T14:06:33","slug":"a-questionable-quota-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-questionable-quota-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"A questionable quota policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong>: Instead of providing reservations for government school students, the government should improve the quality of government schools.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Recently, the <strong>Odisha<\/strong> government has proposed a <strong>15% reservation for government school students in medical and engineering colleges<\/strong>. The aim is to reduce \u201cinequity arising\u201d from the lack of physical and economic access to coaching institutions.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What does this proposal imply?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>This looks like an admission of the government that it has<strong> failed in providing quality education in schools<\/strong>. This shows that <strong>instead of focusing on improving the schools<\/strong>, the government is adopting the policy of reservation.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Read more<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/maratha-reservation-and-the-reservation-policy-in-india-explained-pointwise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maratha Reservation and the Reservation Policy in India \u2013 Explained, Pointwise<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5><strong>What do the statistics say?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>About 62% of students attend government and government-aided schools in India.<\/p>\n<p>38% goes to private institutions, some of which belong to the elite category.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, it can be argued that these 38% may have access to better teachers, tuitions and classes. This, according to the government, it creates inequality.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>How can the quality of education in government schools be improved?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Capacity building Programmes:<\/strong> Introduce programmes for teachers to implement new pedagogic practices. There should be an emphasis on language learning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fill vacant Posts: <\/strong>Teachers and staff vacancies should be filled as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mindset: <\/strong>Change in the mindset among people and policymakers that government schools are typically backward and inferior to private schools.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Change in policies: <\/strong>The policy of automatically promoting the students to higher classes without passing examinations should be scrapped.<\/p>\n<p><strong>State responsibility: <\/strong>The state\u00a0should take responsibility for improving education in government schools.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What can be the way forward?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Government should address the root cause, which is focused on school education. It should focus on improving education as part of affirmative action.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong>This post is based on the article <strong>\u201cA questionable quota policy\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>The Hindu <\/strong>on <strong>9<sup>th<\/sup> September 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis: Instead of providing reservations for government school students, the government should improve the quality of government schools. Introduction Recently, the Odisha government has proposed a 15% reservation for government school students in medical and engineering colleges. The aim is to reduce \u201cinequity arising\u201d from the lack of physical and economic access to coaching institutions.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-questionable-quota-policy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A questionable quota policy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-132859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704939268},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}