Wastage, Stagnation and Inequality of Opportunity in Rural Primary Education: A Case Study of Andhra Pradesh

Abstract

The problem of wastage and stagnation in school (and in higher education) has received considerable attention of the planners for quite sometime. It was noted in as early as' 192,8 by the Hartog Committee and more recently the Kothari Commission identifying this as a major problem claimed “................ wastage and stagnation like headache and fever and not diseases in themselves, they are really symptoms of other diseases in the education system, chief among which is lack of proper articulation between education and health and the poor capacity of the school to attract and hold students. To these may be added the third ailment poverty which falls outside the system”