India has been one of the fastest-growing major economies, leading to rapid increases in per capita income, demand, and integration with the global economy. The 21st century is set to become India’s ‘urban century’ with more people living in cities and towns than in the countryside for the first time in its history. India has 10 of the 30 fastest-growing cities in the world and is witnessing rapid urbanization leaving behind the rural hamlets. The growth is happening in large cities, large population is in villages with most of the agricultural sector. According to the projections, millions of rural dwellers will move to urban areas by 2020 in search of good school education, jobs and for other needs.
The only way to arrest this migration to urban areas is to provide basic facilities in schools of Rural Areas for good learning. There is enormous potential in the children coming from rural schools and it is not explored. The quality of education imparted to the children in the school is to be higher. It is in this context that the corporates are thinking of providing good quality education to the children of rural schools in villages by adopting the school under CSR activities and that is laudable.
To embark upon its growth story, India will have to educate its children and its young people and it must do so in a hurry. Lack of education in rural areas can be a critical constraint to the growth of the children living here. People migrate to urbanised areas for the sake of providing better education and good amenities in the schools. Gandhi education Trust is playing an important role by having the vision of developing the infrastructure for Education in the rural hamlet of Ladvi, Haripura, Vareli, Umbhel and cluster of surrounding villages near Kadodara, in Surat District.
