PRESENT EDUCATION STATUS IN LONGLENG DISTRICT OF NAGALAND: PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES

Author: Vangngoi Phom, Research Scholar, Department of Education, Nagaland University

Published On: 2020-12-19

Education is one of the most important tools for the development of any individual or society. The development of a region depends upon its ability to create skilled human resource through the promotion of quality education among its people. It is with this objective that the educational programmes had been initiated to promote education envisaging special interventions for children belonging to the urban and rural areas of Longleng. This paper identifies and analyses institutional gaps and constraints that keep the school system from acquiring a professional orientation. The educational institutional in Longleng has been hampered from obtaining a professional orientation by institutional gaps and constraints. The sample of the study comprised of 30 schools and was selected through random sampling methods. The paper examines the drawbacks of education system and also highlights the problems of low literacy rate, and low gross enrolments ratio of government and private run institution. The paper argues that recent initiative in democratic decentralization that has a positive impact on basic infrastructure such as buildings, drinking water, toilets, electricity etc. The results show poor performance of educational achievement in rural Longleng block gender disparity in terms of pass percentage and also the level of infrastructure development. Therefore, development policy of planned measure may help to improve the condition of education system in the district.

Keywords: Education, Communitisation and Infrastructure