Dr. Parameswara Rao's email and another sample letter

Dr. Parameswara Rao is sending this letter asking others to participate in our efforts:

Friends:

I am forwarding you our thoughts on the present situation in the Primary Education. We hope you will agree that it is pretty serious. We would you urge you to send your telegrams to the PM for his personal intervention in setting the primary education on a firm footing.

With warm regards,

Parameswara Rao.

PRIMARY EDUCATION

1. Primary Education concerns itself in teaching 6 to 14 years olds in classes 1 to 8. Needless to say that it is the foundation education for every child going to school. This moulds their habits and attitudes. Thus it is the place where you can also mould the nation.
2. Presently 82-85% of student’s classes 2^nd – 9^th are NOT reaching the minimum levels learning; 87% of students are dropping out of school by 10^th and 60% by 6^th. What is further alarming is that 10-15% students in 10^th class are not able to read and write in vernaculars.
3. One more disheartening feature is that boys in 3^rd class are taking to stealing, boys in 5^th to chewing tobacco, boys in 9^th to drinking. The waywardness of the children going to primary & high school has gone much beyond our imagination. It is high time, the community takes cognizance of the total scenario.
4. Added to this dismal situation, the Government of India has passed “The Right of Children to Free & Compulsory Education Act, 2009; No.35 of 2009 on 26, August 2009. This is to say that primary education has been made compulsory to every child. The task is to make primary education more effective.
5. The insufficient funds, lack of appropriate supervision, the truant teaching community, interference by the politician in the administrative set up, ignorance of the parents and above all the intransigence of the public and more particularly the parent community is playing havoc with the primary education.

The gigantic problem thus is to see that the public particularly the parents are made aware of this dismal situation. The intellectuals have to take lively and active interest in the primary education. The governments, both at the state and the central level, have to be pressurized by the public to deliver effective primary education.

6. A few senior citizens, retired professors, engineers’ young and old et al have come together under the banner “Citizens for Effective Primary Education” with BCT as the convening agency, getting to discuss the sorry state of the primary education.

In our last meeting we passed a resolution to take the problem to the public and request them to convey their concern through post cards to the Chief Ministers in the State and the Prime Minister at the Centre.

7. I am now sending appeals to all our friends to send e-mails at least to the Prime Minster, requesting his personal attention. You know how well Japan is managing their country, just because of its care & attention to the children in the primary school.
8. A model of your mail to the PM may run as follows :

Dear Prime Minister:

We congratulate you for getting “Right to Education Act” after 6 ½ years of hibernation. But we learn with dismay that the primary education is in shambles all over the country with 80 of the children not reaching the MLL, 60% dropping out of school by 6^th and 87% out of the high school. The problem could well be retrieved if you make parents committees supervise daily operation of schools and local authorities manage the schools. Your government could release per head grant to them while governmental machinery takes to overall supervision. We urge with all sincerity for your personal involvement in the primary education. Thanks a lot.

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Address it to: Prime Minister                     

                         Prime Minister Office

                         New Delhi.

Or email him: manmohan AT sansad.nic.in (please replace ' AT ' with '@' removing any spaces in between)