Himani Kumar India's formal education system is failing as the government is falling short in delivering its responsibilities,Raghuram Rajan,economic adviser to PM Manmohan Singh has said,emphasising the need for more organisational training in the sector. Indias formal education system is failing and government school system is failing,government is not delivering the goods, Rajan said. India,he said,needs more organisational training in the field of education. Here in the US,superstar teachers are paid more, he said. He said India must give incentives to its good teachers to raise the level of education in schools and universities. He was speaking at a Pratham fundraiser at Meadows Club in Chicago. Pratham is Indias largest non-profit organisation in the field of primary education. I think its of critical importance. For a long time we have focused on higher education,but in the last decade we have shifted our focus to primary and secondary education. We need every child in school, said Rajan. In Indian schools. half the students are not in class. Average schools are better in the US and dropout rate is more in India although students are more hungry for education, he added. He said China always emphasised education much more than India and as a result its average literacy rate was better than Indias.
