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Free Education in India Provided By Social Service in India
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by: Shawn Jeffrey
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A couple of years back the British clothing company Primark removed three Indian suppliers from its list of suppliers after an investigation spearheaded by the BBC revealed that the manufacturing units were using child labor. Around the same time, Gap a famous brand of clothing abroad also found child labor finding use by one of its Indian suppliers. Such accounts and disclosures do shock the entire human race and the general reaction is: let's not buy their products, this will teach them a lesson. However, one also needs to think about the fact of why these children got into this work. It would be a case in point to connect child labor to the lack of accessible free education in India. Not just any education rather quality education. Children do not recognise the importance of education and hence they see means of making money as a better alternative to studying. It does not come as a surprise simply because textbooks do not immediately place food on the table. Social service in India must increase its role in providing free education to our unfortunate Indian children.
One of the main reasons is poverty. Poverty does not provide children with a quality education, and it is the same poverty, which forces these young ones to work for a living. A good social service venture in India would emancipate these children from their poverty ridden status. That is simply not enough. A social service venture in India must also seek to provide free education for these Indian children. Many times an NGO notices that children and their parents need to be sensitised to this fact: Education is a means of future livelihood. If that is not the case, then the work put in by the social service in India to provide free education will amount to a zilch.
It is a falsely well publicised fact that the Indian economy is growing fast and that the development is all- rounded.. Nothing could be more further from the truth. However, the economy has been vastly criticised for its uneven development. The irregularities is not only restricted to its urban and rural scenario but to its social order. Just as much as it is a norm for the urban to get educated, it is a norm for the rural to work. So evils like illiteracy cannot stay alive. Free education to the illiterate masses is the only social service in India that will be of any worth to our economy.
The nature of social service in our country is still in the pink. What I mean is that we are yet to see large scale misuse of funds in the economy unlike the corporate bungling that has cost us the market and our earnings. There is enough scope for trust in the doings of the social service in India. There is also hope that the provision of free education in India will be a success. Success should be measured in terms of less primary school drop-outs and more access to free education in India provided by quality social service in the country.
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Shawn Jeffrey is the author of this article on Slum education. Find more information about Social service in india here.
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