Give more importance to Merit
Dramatic changes have happened in the last twenty-five years. Changes
have taken place economically socially, strategic demands, many other. Certainly
the country has moved much further. Into a 2 trillion economy moving towards a
five trillion economy. Also a digitalized society is around the corner.
The draft National Education Policy was released by the government
recently. Existing education system is big victim of lethargic and non
committed execution of prescribed provisions. Need is to have high integrity in all processes at every level.
Governance in education needs to be made merit driven and of high integrity.
The policy advocates the closure of rural primary schools where there are
about dozen students and one teacher, without appreciating the higher ratio of
students and teachers. The school complex that the policy talks about is an
Utopian idea, If it is executed the small children of rural and the oppressed
classes of the society will be deprived of education, as transport cost to the
'complex-schools' will be unbearable to the poor families. You cannot make
primary education world-class and it is not required also. The primary
education is introductory in nature to create an aptitude for learning further,
which can be supplemented by ICT, at a lesser cost. The government should not
close down rural primary schools creating a situation of illiteracy and
ignorance in the deprived communities. Instead, the school teachers must be
used for counselling the uneducated rural folk and help them to reach out the government
schemes to them through the advancement of IT.
In the interior villages of India, where only a single teacher is posted
in primary schools, the teacher doesn't stay in that area and doesn't attend
punctually every day. This aspect of
teacher's absence and measures to prevent it are not covered in the draft
education policy.
The policy makers have a closed mind, biased, in place of exploring
details in policy and changes it will bring vis a vis current system. They are
more interested in dividing entire process into welfare of dalits and obc, a
narrow mind. In India we have reached to a level where we end up everything
into a caste based system, rotten minds which need refreshers course first,
otherwise very soon they will take India back to medieval age.
In reality, education, is only for employment. Government does well to
calculate global employment avenues. Budgetary allocations might be initially
enhanced adequately for education that might be recovered when the
beneficiaries become earners. Even private educational enterprises might be
involved because scholarships or educational loans could make way for poor but
talented students to study in them. While the real issue is life, we seem to
insist only on language.
The aim of the government in addition to facilitating elementary
education for every strata of the society should also to be ascertain the
developments a merit based qualified people holding knowledge in their specific
fields. India lacks a lot in this where the whim to join a college depends on
just to get through to a high grossing job without basics of what it demands
and the ability to get there is nullified by inappropriate reservations.
All are not created equal. Everyone is created unique. The differences
are real readily verifiable. Over generalization to deal with this inherent
difference in the name of science and research (both are human mediated) is
hazardous, however politically expedient and 'correct'. Challenge is to master
the art of understanding these inherent differences and make everyone happy in
blossoming into self-assured, clear minded with big picture role playing
mindset and capabilities.
Indian education need radical changes, presentation layer to be improved.
We only put them in school, only memorize and write exams - not spend time for critical
development of child.
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