The following steps have been taken for education:
1.There is a provision made for providing universal access, and quality in elemantary education with a special emphasis on girls.
2. There is also an establishment of pace setting of schools like Navodaya Vidyalaya in each district.
3. Vocational streams have been developed to equip large number of high school students with occupations related to knowledge and skills.
(i) The plan outlay of education has increased from Rs 151 crore in the first plan to Rs 3,766.90 crores in the eleventh plan.
(ii) The expenditure on education as a percentage of GDP rose from 0.64% in 1951-52 to 3.3% in 2013-14.
(iii) The literacy rate has increased from 29% in 1951 to 74% in 2010-11.

The  quality of the  populations ultimately decides the growth rate of the country.
(a) Illiterate and unhealthy population are a liability for the economy.
(b) Literate and healthy population are an asset.
If illiterate is there then the growth rate of the country will be low and if literate population is there the growth rate of the country will bw high.

The quality of population depends upon:
(i) Literacy Rate
(ii) Health of a person
(iii) Life expectancy of a person
(iv) Skill formation.

Human resources are important for development as they contribute to the growth of the economy by taking up productive activities in the form of business, profession and employment.They also create demand in the economy which helps industry to grow and prosper.A well educated, healthy and disciplined human resource is more of an an asset for the economy than a liability.

When the existing human resouces  is developed through education, health and welfare measures, it becomes human capital or can be called human capital formation.Investment in human capital through education, training, medical c are yields a return just like investment in physical capital.More educated and better trained people yield higher return due to higher productivity of educated and healthier people.

1. People as resource is a way of referring to a country's working people in terms of their existing productive skills and abilities.The ability to contribute to the creation of Gross National Product.Population can also be referred as human resource like any other resource.
2. People as resource is nothing but to look at the population in a positive way rather than the negative way of considering them as a burden to provide food, clothing and shelter.

Economic Activities. Activities performed to earn livelihood and having economic motive are termed as economic activities. These activities are concerned with the production,exchange and distribution of goods and services. The engagement of people in business, profession and employment are economic activities. These activities are rewarded in monetary terms.
Non-economic activities. Activities performed to satisfy emotional and psychological needs and having no economic motive behind them are known as non-economic activities. These activities may be social, cultural, religious, educational and charitable.

(i) Importance of Education.  Human resource refers to the population of a country and the efficiency,productivity ,skill and far sightedness of its inhabitants.
(ii) Education is an important factor for the development of human resource.
(a) Education-general,technical and medical improves the level of understanding.
(b) It also adds to the capacity of human stock to produce more.It increases the mental efficiency of the people.
(iii) Education can play an effective role in raising production from its low level.General and technical education develops efficiency among the labourers to use highly advanced techniques of production for the optimum use of the existing resources.
(iv) Education builds healthy human capital to handle the pressure of challenging jobs.