Education for All in India The Present and Beyond 2015

In the year 1990, Education for All at Jomtien, Thailand marked the inception of EFA, international movement towards improving education. In 2000, at Dakar EFA forum six internationally agreed education goals were recognized that aimed to meet the learning needs of all children, youth and adults by 2015. India has also abided by the EFAs yet as the deadline for EFA approaches, some states and regions within India remain far from achieving some goals and urban rural disparities exist that holds back India as a whole from achieving set targets for 2015 as a nation. India remains to be under the lower third in the Educational Development Index with EDI of 0.790 (UNESCO, 2012). Therefore, it is important to make a final assessment of progress under the framework of EFA with a vision beyond 2015 that will help achieve international and national targets in the coming decade. This chapter concludes that as India prioritizes to prepare globally competent citizens and improve its education system in the coming years there needs to be a well thought-out education strategy that can be implemented via reforms in these key areas- access, quality, governance.