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Excerpt: EDUCATION IN INDIAIndia has an ancient tradition of education.The world’s first university was established inTashkila in 700 B.C. Indian mathematicians introduced the zero, the decimal system and themethod of multiplication. PRIMARY EDUCATION India has made huge progress in terms of increasing primary education attendance rate andexpanding literacy to approximately two thirds of the population..The National Council ofEducational Research and Training (NCERT) is the apex body for school education in India.SECONDARY EDUCATIONThe National Policy on Education (NPE), 1986, has provided for environment awarenes,science and technology education, and introduction of traditional elements such as Yoga into the Indian secondary school system.Another feature…