National education policy is just the start

By Varun GandhiA typical school in Bikaner’s outlying villages in Rajasthan often has two classes conducted at the same time in a single room — with children sitting in rows, and one group facing one way, towards a wall with a blackboard, and another the other way. Sometimes lessons can be mixed up, making it hard for any student to understand arithmetic over the din — the teacher may not even come to know.Rural India’s aspiration for quality