Education in India

India is one of the oldest learning center in the world. Nalanda “one of the first and greatest university in the world's history” is located in the Indian city of Patna, Bihar. India's main language Sanskrit is mother of all languages of the world. India has given birth to many highly learned scholars and remarkable personalities like Aryabhatta, Gautam Buddha, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teressa and many more. Indians today are making a mark in all fields, Biotechnology, Science, Management, Economics, Law, Media, Politics, Information Technology, the list is endless. NASA comprises of a huge number of Indian scientists, most of the Professors at various universities of the world have Indian professors, many top MNC's around the globe are being headed by Indians, Indian beauties have been winning most of the International Beauty & Talent contests. All this has been achieved only with Education in India.

India is a fast developing nation and in this fast growing world “Education is key to success”. With IIT's, IIM's, IISc, AIIMS, NIT, BITS, D.U., JNU, BHU, India boasts of some of the finest universities and educational institutions of the world . The Indian Government has been striving hard to achieve 100% literacy rate for its 1.13 billion population with not just elementary, primary, higher secondary education but even adult education by providing night classes. Due to the efforts of the Education Department 'Girl child education' initiative was started, which was quite successful. The Education Dept also started the “Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan” covering the whole of India that was highly appreciated and also received tremendous response and continues to do so. Its only because of the Department's sincere efforts that today free education is provided to all children upto the age of 14 years, through its Compulsory Education Programs.