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Meghnad Saha

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Here Saha’s work is briefly overviewed.

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    More than 65 years after independence and various plans, their reviews and re-plans, one of the reports says that there are 5.23 lakh vacancies of teachers at primary school level, 5.1 lakh additional primary teachers are needed to meet the Right to Education Act and 7.74 lakh of the existing primary teachers are not qualified enough. There are 35% of vacancies at 24 older central universities, 50% or more vacancies in 19 out of 77 state universities and at least 40% of vacancies in 14 others. In technical institutes there is 1 lakh faculty deficit [5]. Only 10% of students have access to higher education (beyond higher secondary schooling) in India. In China it is 22% and in USA it is 28% [6]. Another report says that to go from having islands of excellence to being a major world player in science, India must solve such problems as dearth of teachers and a divide between research and teaching [7].

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    Pramod V. Naik

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Naik, P.V. (2017). Epilogue. In: Meghnad Saha. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62102-9_17

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