Indian Education System: Can McKinsey do the trick?

Much has been talked/discussed/written over the inefficient education system of India. I have tried to summarize the major issues with our education system.

Spending on Education: UPA govt promised to increase the spending from 3% of GDP to 6% and slapped us with education cess for that. I have been happily paying the education cess under the impression that it will go directly for the education.. but this year budget shows otherwise.. no substantial increase in the expenditure on education. This has to increase. I can't understand that when so many univs/engg/medical colleges could be opened in late 50's and early 60's (this was one of the worst times India has ever faced.. everyone thought that India was on the brink of collapse and more so after chinese and pak invasion.) then why can't we do it now, when we are at our best. When will India understand that we have to build a knowledge economy and we have to have the surplus of education centers whatever it takes.

Primary Education: Corrupt Officials, bad/no infrastructure, schools with no-roof, mid-day-meals (this is one great effort to lure children to school, but again corruption is there), number of schools per student too low, lack of 'jawahar navodaya' kind of residential schools (jnv's are a great asset to the nation and i feel that India needs many more of them).

Secondary Education: Number of schools too less, too few scholarships. lack of interests in teachers, lack of motivation in students.

Post Secondary/higher education: less number of schools, the proportion of grads in some of the social sciences streams (say ancient history, sociology, psychology, philosophy, geography) is way toooo high than what a country like India needs. Won't it be a good idea to restrict such streams to some good univs only. And may be start some vocational courses (not necessarily engg.. can be para-medical/agriculture) so as to enroll most of our students who aren't into any professional degree courses/research. Also setting up some institutes/incubation centers which can provide help/knowledge/information etc to young entrepreneurs.

I am sure there are many more and it is not at all exhaustive. Please do feel free to comment if u want some more issues to be added up to the list above.

Also, to propose a solution I would need lots of data and also the skill to fruitfully analyse them (which I have no experience in). Infact, last night it came to us (santosh and me) that instead of everyone proposing sketchy/inexact/immature solutions to the problem why can't we have a study done by some professional body(s) (mckinsey etc) and propose solutions which can then be debated. We (includes the bunch of babus/politicians who govern this whole thing) should also be open to the total change in the system. Such a study shouldn't be dearer when compared to our education budget (this yr's budget outlays around 17k crores for the primary education and this is just from the central govt).