While India has made substantial progress in education in terms of enrolment of children into schools, concerns on the poor quality of education is gaining importance. Attaining minimum competencies by children - though many point out inadequacies of such measurement - itself becomes a major challenge with lot of inadequacies in the system there by questioning the quality of teaching learning processes. Thus, while there are host of systemic issues, quality related to in-school processes appear to be one of the solutions that would focus on development of competencies among children.

Non-enrolment and drop out of children from schooling is, to greater extent, linked to the quality of education, though economic factors do play a significant role. Relevance of education to life and livelihoods, child friendly processes and joyful learning environment and commitment and motivation of teachers are some of the significant factors that would attract children to schooling.

Public Report on Basic Education (PROBE, 1999) has identified several aspects related to quality of education infrastructure, which is also critical for learning. For example