A glimmer of hope

Aser 2018 finds some improvements in primary education

Pratham, a non-governmental organisation engaged in education, has been coming out with its Annual Status of Education Report (Aser) since 2005. And each year’s report has been presenting a dismal picture of primary education in the world’s second most populous country. The reports focus on children aged between 6 years and 14 years in rural India and maps the schooling status of and the “impact” of primary education on a child’s ability to complete basic reading and arithmetic tasks. Despite enacting Right to Education in 2010, which made it incumbent on the state to ensure that each child between the