Democratise access to education

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  •  Where you are born, whom you are born to, and what school you go to largely determine your destiny in life. Only a few can swim against this tide.
  •  There are 10,200 schools, of which over 95% start with a handicap—of facilities, teachers, teaching materials, extracurricular activities, and later on, access to jobs.
  •  The role of the government is to create a level playing field so that, irrespective of whom and where you are born, you have an equal right to good educational infrastructure.
  •  This means significantly scaling up investment in education and working towards eliminating discrimination in our schooling system. 

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