Well Ankit,you are viewing the glass as half-empty,I wud say.Providing education provides complete cure for most of the prblms.Other measures mite be like pain killers.Providing free education means also checking the attendance rate for a particular school and taking proper action if the standards are not met.It doesn't end with that.Think about the noon meal scheme available in TN.This has increased the no.of enrollments in schools.Atleast ppl are sending their children to school so that they can have atleast 1 sq meal/day.This is indirectly making a child to come to school.All good habits are hard to come and hard to go.This good habit of coming to school is hard to come and we need to take steps like noon meal scheme to make it a success.Once the habit is set and it is going to reap benefits,this habit will be hard to go.In intial phases this will take lot of efforts and pains to inculcate this habit.Even some measures like Free electricity for certain duration can be given to homes where children are studying.But India is currently facing severe power shortage.So we need to wait for some yrs for this to happen.Even some concessions can be given in the Ration shops for ppl those who send their children to schools.
-Deepak.