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The State shall provide uniform, free and compulsory education up to primary school level to all citizens.
People cannot afford to send their children to school for want of means.
We have attained freedom 50 years ago. Half a century is over. It is high time now to review the situation prevailing in India. The United Nations Declaration is there. They have made a solemn Declaration that the entire humanity should be literate by the turn of the century. That is a Declaration which is made applicable throughout the globe. It is a global Declaration. In matters like population growth, India will be in the first position in the world by the turn of the century. We will surpass China in that respect and India is to become the first nation having the largest number of illiterate people. We are ashamed to say that our nation will have the largest number of illiterate people who do not know how to read and write. That is the present situation. After 50 years of freedom, we have not done much in the field.