Early childhood education in India is subject to two extreme but contrary deficiencies. On the one hand, millions of young children in lower income groups, especially rural and girl children, comprising nearly 40% of first grade entrants never complete primary school. Even among those who do, poorly qualified teachers, very high student-teacher ratios, inadequate teaching materials and out-moded teaching methods result in a low quality of education that often imparts little or no real learning. It is not uncommon for students completing six years of primary schooling in village public schools to lack even rudimentary reading and writing skills.
At the other end of the social and educational spectrum, children attending urban schools, especially middle and upper class children in private schools, are subjected to extreme competitive pressures from a very early age to acquire basic language skills and memorize vast amounts of information in order to qualify for admission into the best schools. Parents and teachers exert intense pressure on young children to acquire academic skills at an age when children should be given freedom and encouraged to learn as a natural outcome of their innate curiosity, playfulness and eagerness to experiment. Rising concern over compulsory learning at an early age is prompting many educators to advocate dramatic steps to counter the obsession with premature and forced teaching practices.
apart from this indian education system is higly tilted towards producing muggers,that is the focus is on cramming the infomration availble in the books, that must change to techincal and practical knowledge...it is important that government should not be involved directly in providing education, we can have a nodal agency which will be reponsible for recruting teachers for schools.there is another problem in the government schools that teachers are either not present or do not take classes, for this a solution could be that government provides coupons to parents which can be utilised to choose a school for education of the child. this way parents will choose only that school in which teachers are regular and sincere in their efforts.