The story of Indian education is one of quantitative progress but conspicuous failures in quality. After six decades, India has made notable improvement in the gross and net enrolment ratio and achieved universal enrolment in lower primary education. School attendance improved substantially since the mid-1990 especially among girls. Hence, this research paper mainly focus on to analyse the rural net attendance ratio by social groups and main religious groups in India, to review of policies and programmes related to school education and to analyse the proportion dalits children enrolment in schools. This study uses the secondary data from National Sample Survey Organization, Ministry of Human Resource Development Reports, India Rural Development Report and national Family Health Survey.

Primarily major findings of this study about 28 per cent of rural primary school age children attend private schools. Every 100 children enroll first standard about 30 drop out before reaching class V and more than 40 before reaching class VIII. This study highlights to Attendance of public school teacher is low and even teachers who attend often do not teach. Finally, provisionally given recommendations of this study on priority give to girls education, skill development and financial assistance for livelihood support to most vulnerable people, Government of India should be taken an action to ensure to the quality of education given to all the sector of the society and Governments must to be establishing to new skill based training center for Girls in all regions of the country.