New Delhi, Dec 10 (UNI) India needs to debate on the growing culture of coaching institutions, Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy Sanjay Kumar said on Saturday adding that "our schools are getting depopulated at several levels."
"Is coaching something which enhances education or education is something different. We need to talk about it. The way things are occurring, we are finding that our schools are getting depopulated at several levels," he said.
"Children are dropping out of the schools thereby missing the ecosystem of being immersed in an educational system and perhaps missing out on the joy of it," he added.