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Education System in Modern India

Education System in Modern India

ABSTRACT

It has been a comforting slogan:"The world is aging, but India has youth on her side". By the end of this decade, the average age of Indian population will be 29.As the result of this "demographic dividend", by 2040 a quarter of the globe's incremental increase in working population is set to occur in India. Our present workforce (the 15-64 age group) comprises 430 million people. In next 20 years, India will add another 480 million people to its existing workforce of 430 million [1].To convert this demographic dividend into a viable economic resource and to harness the latent potential of the human capital, education remains the most indispensable means. The proposed paper, aims to observe the gaps and loopholes within the Education system using the fundamentals of the Capability Approach, as a holistic mechanism of evaluation and ways which may help in solving the aforementioned problems, thereby, making it possible to utilize the vast demographic dividend of our country.

Keywords: Capability approach, Higher education, human resource

BRIEF HISTORY OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIA

The issue of quality of Higher Education in India cannot be understood without digging into the past. Historical records reveal that in 1916-17 there were only four engineering colleges in India with total annual intake of 74 students. The growth of the number of institutions of higher education was slow until Independence. After Independence, Higher education became one of the crucial agendas of the newly formed government. They realised that the development of our nation depended immensely on building the human capital by providing them with good quality education. Our first Prime minister advocated the scientific approach, the scientific outlook and the scientific temper. He had an inherent