Low on quality, govt schools lose out to private ones A frightening scenario stares Himachal in the face as enrolment in government elementary schools is decreasing by 5 per cent annually and there are reasons to believe that education will slip out of the hands of the government if downtrend is not arrested Irrational deployment of teachers, lack of will to formulate a consistent and non-discriminatory policy for recruitment of teachers and collapse of inspection system have become a bane of education in the state, leading to decline in learning standards. The government has been opening schools without assessing the need and in spite of opening 10,729 primary and 2,291 ... Continue reading... http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/hi...t-schools-lose-out-to-private-ones/99880.html