Primary Educationin our country, as you know well, is very much neglected. The aim ofcompulsory Primary Education advocated by Mahatma Gandhi for age group between6 & 14 cannot be achieved uptil now. Is has far lagged behind. Not morethan 60% of the children could be brought to school even 50% of the attendingchildren drop out before they complete their education in the primary level.There are many social and economic factors that stand in the way of compulsoryprimary education in the country. Establishment of Teachers’ Training Collageto produce a good number of trained teachers and setting up primary school invillage are stepping stones to promote compulsory education.
The aim of such a training collage is to make a band of primaryteachers with the professional trademark of training, to enable them to swaywith the modern trends of primary education to realize its nature, aims andimportance, its impacts on society, its problems and to help them to developtheir thoughts in these respects. It objective is also to make ateacher-trainee conscious of his responsibilities to impart, to promote andexpand primary education, to help him know his role as a person and citizen, toknow his professional preparations and apply them in behavior and practice forattaining competency in solving the problems of primary education byeradicating the odds that stand in the way.
The dream of a training collage at Kandi is fulfilled. ThisInstitute, let me hope, will flourish in the years to come and under itsfostering care generations of good and competent teachers will come out to takedifferent activities in the implementation and expansion of primary education.