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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