Primary education possesses utmost importance in our national life. Primary education is the basis of building up a skilled citizenry and the path to include the whole population within the education system. So, equal opportunities will be created to ensure access of all sections of children to primary education irrespective of ethnicity, socio-economic conditions, physical or mental challenges and geographical differences. This is the Constitutional responsibility of the state. Since this stage forms the foundation of subsequent levels of education, so delivery of quality primary education is a must. And since many of the students seek employment after this stage, a strong base in primary education will equip them better in the job market. To strengthen the general foundation of primary education at the national level, the existing discriminations among schools in regard to facilities, infrastructure constraints, lack of adequate number of teachers and the weaknesses in training will be adequately addressed. Primary education will be
universal, compulsory, free and of uniform quality for all. At present 100% children cannot be given access to primary schools for economic, regional and geographical factors.

By 2010-11, 100% enrollment of primary education will be ensured. At least one primary school will be
established in the villages that have none.

Aims and Objectives
• to develop a curricula and textbooks imbued with the national spirit with a view to cultivate the humanistic values. A congenial and joyful environment need to be created in the schools to promote healthy physical and mental development of the children;
• to initiate a uniform and mandatory syllabus for some basic subjects to be taught in diverse types of schools delivering primary education;
• to help the students inculcate moral and spiritual values like idea of justice, sense of duty, discipline and etiquettes, non-communalism, human rights, accommodative attitudes toward corporate living, curiosity, friendliness and perseverance, and to encourage them to acquire scientific, cultural and human values and to shun superstitions;
• to ignite in them the spirit of our national liberation movement and encourage them with patriotism to dedicate themselves to nation-building;
• to make them motivated and capable of pursuing higher education through ensuring the qualitatively adequate marginal skills at respective levels of studies; To achieve this, adequate number of quality teachers will be appointed. Besides, the development of physical infrastructure, favorable social ambience, competent pedagogy, warm
teachers-students relationship and the respectable status of women have to be ensured.
• to take effective steps to ensure the acquisition of essential knowledge, subject-based knowledge, life skills, attitudes, values and the sense of social awareness to meet their basic learning needs that will enable them to move ahead to the next level of education;
• Pre-vocational education will be in place from Classes VI to VIII to develop respect for manual labour and to give them some idea of vocational education.
• to facilitate learning in the mother languages of the indigenous peoples and small ethnic groups at the primary level of education;
• to initiate special monitoring for primary education especially in the backward areas;
• Equal opportunities have to be ensured for all kinds of disabled and underprivileged children.