Abstract:
Primary education is the basic foundation of progress of any nation. This is the first step by successfully crossing which a nation can reach its desired goal. Neither secondary education nor higher education has as close a relationship with national life as primary education has. In building national ideology and character, primary education has as important a place as any other social, political or educational one. It is not related to any particular person or class but to the entire population of the country.
Thus we can say that education of all individuals or education of the common people is the basic foundation of national progress. In this context, the following thoughts of Swami Vivekananda are full of truth -
"In my opinion, neglect of the masses is a great national sin and one of the causes of our downfall. All politics will fail unless the masses in India are once again properly educated."
Therefore, keeping these thoughts in mind, when the Constitution of our country came into force in 1950, it was said under Article 45 of the Constitution, 'The State shall, within ten years from the coming into force of this Constitution, provide for all children of the age group of 6 to 14 years. Will try to provide free compulsory education to children.
But unfortunately we have not been able to achieve this goal even today, but it is not that efforts have not been made in this direction, rather continuous efforts have been made in this direction, such as the Kothari Commission (1964-66) while propounding the importance of education. Said, "The main objective of education is to strengthen social and national unity. To achieve this objective, we will have to universalize primary education, but mainly three aspects are hindering the universalization of primary education
