<p>India has been facing acute difficulty in overcoming obstacles to improve the condition of primary education in the country. According to the 2013-14 edition of the District Information System for Education (DISE) report the country’s schooling system is overwhelmingly skewed towards primary schools. This is due to an increasing number of smaller primary schools being founded which lack in adequate infrastructure to provide the students with a suitable learning environment.<br><br>Further, the Annual Status of Education Report 2015 shows that only a little over 50 per cent schools in the country have access to basic amenities such as electricity. As a result the image of the average classroom remains a dingy, ill-constructed room with a concrete wall as a blackboard, the floor for seating and a teacher struggling to retain the attention of a disinterested class.<br><br>In a bid to eliminate this education inequity in India to a small extent, one of world’s largest CeramicSteel manufacturers, PolyVision has decided to provide classrooms with a premium teaching tool. In partnership with Teach for India, a nationwide movement working towards eliminating educational inequity in India and Whitemark Limited, the company’s national distributor in India, PolyVision is donating hundreds of high quality CeramicSteel whiteboards and chalkboards to under developed classrooms across 7 cities in India. “Research has shown that whiteboard work which is both kinesthetic and visual has a positive impact on teaching and learning, as it engages both the body and the brain,” said Peter Lewchanin, General Manager, PolyVision.<br><br>In India, limited access to technology due to budget and infrastructure constraints as always been a hindrance to the state of education. The fact that the country reports, a school drop-out rate of 40 per cent at the elementary level while 4 per cent never make it to school, is alarming. Reports also claim that the low quality of education is the prime deterrent, resulting in only 10 per cent of Indian children being able to go on to college.<br><br>(BW Online Bureau)</p>
