Primary Education- dismal picture
The Ruling Class is agog with its achievement in the field of education.It says on all occasions that Puducherry is developed in Education.We have to straighten the records that they mean the collegiate Education. Private Players of all hues, from all directions, have been invited and afforded land ,water, electricity and other facilities, as a result they have started their "education business" and set their foothold in the small eco-fragile Region. Institutions have developed.Their business have trebled, quality of lifestyle have improved.Their coffers are constantly filled by capitations, but not the quality of education.Proliferation of institutions in lanes and sub-lanes, and farm fields, driving away the locals, alienating their mens of sustenance and transforming their lives as wage earners do not mean the enhancement in quality of life of the school going and the college going. While the government figures indicate that the drop out in primary education is 45% is a