Literature review

Currently, while Indian institutes of management and technology are world-class,

primary and secondary schools, particularly in rural areas, face severe challenges.

While new governments commonly pledge to increase spending on education and

bring in structural reforms, this has rarely been delivered in practice.

Most of the changes undertaken by the previous BJP-led government were aimed at
reforming the national curricula, and have been criticized for attempting to Hindu-ize
Indias traditionally secular education system.

Improving the standards of education in India will be a critical test for the current
Congress-led government. It will need to resolve concerns over the content of the
curriculum, as well as tackling the underlying challenges to education.