A Scenario of Primary Education in Tea Garden Areas of Assam, India

Abstract

Primary  education  today  is   regarded  as  a  basic  need  .It  is  imparted  from  the  age  of  6  -14  years  . .All  shorts  of  growth  and  development  of  a  child  depend  on  elementary  education  .It  is  the  gateway  of  secondary  education  than  to  higher  education  .

Assam is one of the backward state of India with 62.45% of literacy according to census 2001 and 73.18% of literacy according to census 2011. Among the different communities living in Assam, the tea garden communities are educationally lagging behind. It is admitted that literacy rate of these community is lower than other communities. It has been also observed that growth of primary education is poor in tea garden of Assam. The magnitude of wastage and stagnation of the primary education in case of their tea garden communities is be lived to the greater than others. Therefore the burning problem of illiteracy cannot be solved without special attention to the tea garden communities.

The findings of this study  stated that as the primary education in the tea garden area is not satisfactory and there are lot of problems behind the slow growth of the primary education in the tea garden areas of Assam, So remedial measures should be taken up by all sections of the society to develop the scenario of primary education in the tea garden areas of Assam.