RURAL EDUCATION IN INDIA: A SCENARIO

India has the largest education system in the world after China. However, issues of Quality education and access remain challenges in some parts of the Country. The role of education in facilitating social and economic progress is well accepted. Access to education is critical to access emerging opportunities that accompany economic growth. Keeping in view of this accepted fact there has been a major thrust on education since independence, but as far as ensuring quality education in rural India is concerned it has always been one of the biggest challenges for the governments. India's rural areas have been left behind in the wake of high growth in other cities in India. One cause of rural poverty is the inability for children in rural areas to obtain basic education. India aspires for universal compulsory primary Education, with its challenges of keeping poor children in school and maintaining quality of education in rural areas, has been difficult to achieve. It is essential to convince everyone in rural India that educating himself, children, parents, and even neighborhoods' must be. One way of spreading the education must be encourage every student and share the knowledge with each other. Here rural education requires special attention to achieve rural education policy.