Teach For India

I want to highlight Teach For India on Indian Trends as this is one of the most important initiatives taken by a group of Indian Intellectuals to provide education to the India's under privileged.

Despite India’s expanding economy, millions of citizens in the country remain marginalized, with no access to the new found opportunities within the country. One of the primary reasons for this is inequity in the quality of education received by thousands of children from low-income communities. This inequity denies those without adequate funds a proper education, leaving them illiterate and weak to break the cycle of poverty, and participate in the country’s economic prosperity.

The state of India’s education is becoming better:

According to India’s 2001 Census, only 60% of the country’s population is literate. For women, the literacy rate is even lower than the national average, at 48%.*


Out of every 100 children in India, 20 will never attend school. Of those who attend school, 50% will drop out before Class X. A central reason for this state of educational inequity in India is a shortage of capable teachers, and a system of rote learning in many schools that impedes critical thinking.

http://www.teachforindia.org/indias-educational-crisis.php