The Road To 100 Per Cent Literacy

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The minimum educational qualifications for teachers to be hired in these schools dip as low as Class VII pass in some states.
They are not even called 'teachers', but 'para-teachers', 'shiksha karmis', 'shiksha bandhus' and so on.
The alternative 'teachers' are paid much below mainstream government school wages, and are often not paid at all for months on end. Hence there's little commitment.
These 'schools' often have no building, no classroom and no textbooks.
The proposed Free and Compulsory Education for Children Bill, 2004, seeks to formalise a clear-cut segregation of the education system, insist activists. They say it should be renamed Cheap and Discriminatory Education Bill, 2004.