Education Summit 2018: Naqvi speaks on North and South India education gap and need for 'shaadi shagun'

Mail Today's seventh Education and Skill Summit 2018 came into force to bring together experts, citizens and those in charge of the education sector India - to discuss the key issues surrounding the Indian education system. While speaking at the Education Summit 2018, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi spoke on various education initiatives to boost education of minorities such as measures taken to provide free coaching classes for government jobs, the education gap of minorities between North and South India, the need for providing funds for the marriage of girls and how communal violence needs to be tackled. Big gap between North and South India in terms of minority education The minorities minister quoted Kerala's 100 per cent literacy rate and the high education rates in south Indian states and compared it with that of north Indian states such as Bihar and UP. Why providing 'shaadi shagun' is so important The minister said that it was "fact and ground reality" that economically weaker sections feel that despite free education and scholarship, the expenditure on girls' marriages was an extra expense. Read: Brain gain, not brain drain, says Javadekar at Mail Today's 7th Educational and Skill Summit Read: 20 per cent teaching positions lie vacant, laments Chengappa at the Mail Today 7th Education and Skill Summit Read: Javadekar has donned many roles since he was a fiery student in ABVP, praises Chengappa at Mail Today's Education and Skill Summit Read: Mail Today 7th Education and Skill Summit 2018: Javadekar, Naqvi, Chengappa, Sisodia kick-start conference