Education in India facts for kids

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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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.
School children of Nuchhungi English Medium School Hnahthial, Mizoram
School lunch at Raika primary school in Gujarat
Indian Pre-Primary School children (Divine Orchids International Preschool, Jawhar)
Indian School-Children at a school in Jodhpur, Rajasthan
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La Martiniere Calcutta, regarded as one of the best schools in the country
Baranagore Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama High School
University of Calcutta, established on 1857, was the first multidisciplinary and secular Western-style institution in Asia.
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata.
Forest Research Institute
All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi
Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Literacy in India grew very slowly until independence in 1947. An acceleration in the rate of literacy growth occurred in the 1991–2001 period.
A primary school in a village in Madhya Pradesh
London Mission Bengali Girls' School, Calcutta (LMS, 1869, p.12)
Maharanis College for Women, Mysore, India.
Nuchhungi English Medium School Hnahthial Lunglei Mizoram on Teachers' Day
Old Rajinder Nagar Delhi
The madrasah of Jamia Masjid mosque in Srirangapatna.