{"id":4866,"date":"2004-12-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/12\/13\/2004-12-13-india-ranks-106-among-127-nations-in-education\/"},"modified":"2004-12-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-13T12:00:00","slug":"2004-12-13-india-ranks-106-among-127-nations-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/12\/13\/2004-12-13-india-ranks-106-among-127-nations-in-education\/","title":{"rendered":"India Ranks 106 Among 127 Nations in Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/autofeed.msn.co.in\/pandorav3\/output\/News\/7e661da0-b0e1-4d24-8a76-5757b487e7cc.aspx\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>NEW DELHI, INDIA, December 13, 2004: 13: India ranks a poor 106th among 127 nations in its educational reach, according to Unesco&#8217;s Global Monitoring Report for 2005, parliament was informed Monday. In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh said the Education for All Development Index of India was 0.658 in the 2003-4 Global Monitoring Report with only 21 countries below it. Singh said steps such as a constitutional amendment to ensure free and compulsory education as a fundamental right for children of age six to 14 years, and the &#8220;Education for All&#8221; program were aimed at remedying the poor state of affairs. The full UNESCO report is <a HREF=\"http:\/\/portal.unesco.org\/education\/en\/ev.php-URL_ID=35313&#038;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&#038;URL_SECTION=201.html<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;>here<\/a>.<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceNEW DELHI, INDIA, December 13, 2004: 13: India ranks a poor 106th among 127 nations in its educational reach, according,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}