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The education goalpost is in sight, the trouble is with the strikers

Despite some serious hand-holding, getting the ball into the goalpost in phase two of NITI Aayog's ambitious SATH-E project is easier said than done

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Anjuli Bhargava New Delhi
India’s states spend roughly Rs 3 trillion cumulatively annually on school education. Yet it amounts to very little. Learning outcomes in the K12 segment across the country remain dismal. More inputs usually do not translate into better yields.
 
The World Bank estimates India’s learning poverty at 54.8 per cent in 2017, referring to children’s inability to read and understand simple text and numbers by the age of 10. Keeping India company are Argentina, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Jordan, Kuwait and Peru, all ranging in the 50s band. China was at 18.2 per cent in the same year. India’s last performance in