India has the largest schooling system in the world with 1.5 million schools, over eight million teachers and 250 million children in these schools. Under the National Policy for Education 1986/1992 the Government of India created an elaborate administrative and academic support system involving institutions at the central, state, district, block and cluster levels.
If we ignore central institutions such as NCERT, NUEPA, UGC, AICTE and NCTE, the numbers at the state level alone would add up to about half a million people outside the schools. These would include over 33 State Councils for Education Research and Training. . .
