Mission-Education for all

What is meaning of Education for all?

It means providing free and compulsory education to all children of India

It means achieving 100% literacy rate and ensuring that

every person in India should be able to read and write

Has Govt achieved the objective of Education for All?

When constitution was enacted in 1950,

It was mentioned in Directive Principals of Constitution that

Free and compulsory education to all children upto age of 14 years

in 10 years time (by 1960)

However, this goal has not yet been achieved but the work is in Progress

How is Educational achievements of country like India measured?

It is measured in terms of

1. Literacy Rate

It means percentage of people who can read and write

It is of 2 types - Youth Literacy Rate and Adult Literacy Rate

Youth Literacy Rate

It means number of people aged 15 to 24 who can read and write

Adult Literacy Rate

It means number of people aged 15+ who can read and write

Primary Completion Rate

It means percentage of people who have completed primary education

NCERT Questions

Question 2

What are the indicators of educational achievement in a country?

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Question 1

In the following questions, select the correct answers:

Which one of the following is an indicator of educational achievment of a country?

1. Youth Literacy Rate
2. Primary Completion Rate
3. Adult Literacy Rate
4. All of these

Question 2

Read the following news report and answer the Q.1-4 on the basis of the same:

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched the Ayushman Bharat Scheme via video-conferencing to extend health insurance coverage to all residents of Jammu and Kashmir.

The Prime Minister’s Office said the scheme will ensure universal health coverage, and focus on providing financial risk protection and ensuring quality and affordable essential health services to all individuals and communities.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the Union Territory’s Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, also spoke on the occasion.

The scheme will provide free-of-cost insurance cover to all residents of the UT of Jammu and Kashmir, the PMO said, adding that it will extend financial cover of upto ` 5 lakhs per family on a floater basis to all residents of the UT.

There is provision for operational extension of the ‘Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana’ (PM-JAY) to approximately 15 lakh additional families, the PMO statement said, adding that the scheme will operate on insurance mode in convergence with PM-JAY.

The benefits of the scheme will be portable across the country.

The hospitals empanelled under the PM-JAY scheme shall provide services under this scheme as well, the PMO said. – The Economic Times – 26th December, 2020

Question 1

What does the Ayushman Bharat Scheme provide?

1. Better health care facility
2. Cheaper health care facility
3. Health Insurance
4. All of the above

Question 2

What is the main benefit of the scheme?

1. Bring a lot of people in the purview of health care.
2. Make health care affordable for the rich in India.
3. Alleviating poverty in India.
4. Improving the education in India.

Question 3

The financial cover under the scheme is of ______________ per family.

1. 5 Lakhs
2. 15 Lakhs
3. 10 Lakhs
4. 20 Lakhs

Question 4

__________________ is the other name of the scheme.

1. PM-JAY
2. PM–JAI
3. PM– AJAY
4. None of the above