Millions of India’s youth today can barely read and write with fluency, leave alone contribute to the advancement of human knowledge. Yet another generation’s potential has been wasted. The blame for this must go to government school system which has failed in most parts of the country.

The system is almost totally corrupt – from the top downwards – with teacher posts and transfers being sold. Many government school teachers are inevitably incompetent as a result and a good number of them do not even attend schools, particularly in villages and remote areas. School quality is pathetic