The 45111 Article of the Constitution assures that the state will assume the responsibility of providing free education to all children between the ages of 6 and 14 within a period of years of the adoption of the Constituti(ll. From this it is evident that India must aim at universal and compulsory education. But there are five main problems in achieving this target. which are as 10110ws:

(l ) Lack of Schools: The students between the age of 6-14 in every part of country do not find school within One or two kilometres from their residence. Therefore, all of them do not join schools and even those who join leave after sometime due to distance.

(2) Lack of Registration: Many children do not go to school at the age as required and many join at late age i.e., class one at the age of 8-9 etc.

(3) Parent Unwillingness: Many parents do not understand the value of education or some have taboo girls schooling, some being poor cannot afiOrd it, some want children to earn and thus for one or the other reason many people are not willing for education of their children.

(4) Wastage: Drop Out of the children from the school before completing at unsuitable time and Stage.

(5) Stagnation: Staying for more than one year in a particular class by a child due to failure in examination. Meaning of Wastage: After 1921. the problem of wastage in education is becoming steadily more and more intense. Even the Harlog Report (1929) made it clear that primary education would remain inefléctive as long as each child did not remain in school for a minimum of four years and achieved literacy. The term 'wastage' in this context means