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Elementary education is provided by the government for children ages 6-14. After 14, families are required to pay for their children’s private school. Because of India’s massive population, high-paying jobs are very competitive and leave many unemployed.

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  • A statue of Sushruta at RACS, Melbourne

    A statue of Sushruta (800 BCE), author of Sushruta Samhita and the founding father of surgery, at Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) in Melbourne, Australia.

  • Nalanda Univercity

    The remnants of the library of Nalanda, built in the 5th century BCE by Gupta kings. It was rebuilt twice after invasion, first after an invasion from the Huns in the 5th century BCE and then after an invasion from the Gaudas in the 7th century CE but abandoned after the third invasion by Turkic invaders in the 12th century.

  • Mizo school girls of Hnahthial

    School children of Nuchhungi English Medium School Hnahthial, Mizoram

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    School lunch at Raika Primary School in Gujarat

  • Indian Preschool

    Indian Pre-Primary School children (Divine Orchids International Preschool, Jawhar)

  • वाजेघर अंगणवाडी, वेल्हे, पुणे

    Anganwadi centre at Velhe, Pune district, 2019

  • Indian School-Girls at Jodhpur

    Indian School-Children at a school in Jodhpur, Rajasthan

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    Secondary school students in a chemistry lab at a school in Odisha

  • BRKM Independence day 2019 (2)

    Independence Day celebration at a school in Baranagar

  • Jagseer S Sidhu teaching school students about Wikipedia

    Jagseer S Sidhu teaching students about Wikipedia at a high school in Punjab

  • La Martiniere, Calcutta by Francis Frith

    La Martiniere Calcutta, regarded as one of the best schools in the country

  • Computerlabxaviers

    Computer class at a college in Kolkata

  • IIM Calcutta Auditorium 1

    Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata.

  • IITCampusPano

    Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

  • Front View of F.R.I., Dehradun

    Forest Research Institute

  • AIIMS central lawn

    All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi

  • Administrative Block at GNLU

    Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar

  • IIT Kharagpur Main Building

    Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

  • National Institute of Technology, Trichy

    National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

  • Literacy India 1901 2011 Detail

    Literacy in India grew very slowly until independence in 1947. An acceleration in the rate of literacy growth occurred in the 1991–2001 period.

  • Karadiaschool

    A primary school in a village in Madhya Pradesh

  • Nuchhungi English Medium School Hnahthial Lunglei Mizoram Students

    Indian school children in Mizoram

  • Bengali Girls' School, Calcutta (LMS, 1869, p.12)

    London Mission Bengali Girls' School, Calcutta (LMS, 1869, p.12)

  • KRS girls

    Girls in Kalleda Rural School, Andhra Pradesh.

  • Maharani's College for Women, Mysore

    Maharanis College for Women, Mysore, India.

  • Nuchhungi English Medium School Hnahthial Lunglei Mizoram Teachers

    Nuchhungi English Medium School Hnahthial Lunglei Mizoram on Teachers' Day

  • Old Rajinder Nagar Delhi

    Old Rajinder Nagar Delhi

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