Politicians – please leave education alone
Our politicians believe they are the repositories of all knowledge and can interfere in all spheres of life. The supposed saffronisation and now detoxification of education by successive governments are causing a great amount of damage to our premier educational institutions. The Government has a constitutional obligation to ensure compulsory free primary education, in which it has miserably failed. If they cannot improve standards, they can certainly cause damages to reputed institutions. If Dr. Joshi wanted to tinker with IIMs, can his successor, Arjun Singh be left far behind? Our Regional Engineering Colleges have been citadels of high quality education, next only to the IITs. All the RECs have been recently converted into National Institutes of Technology fully funded by the Central Government. And what does the Honourable HRD Minister do immediately after taking over these institutes of excellence? Sack 11 heads of these high class institutes! He must be having a good reason to do so. They must have been appointed by his saffron predecessor and so are not good enough! Suddenly 11 NITs are headless! If this is the way the RECs are going to become the NITs – God only can save education in this country. It is unfortunate that such things can happen in a country in which the President and Prime Minister are eminent academicians!
Why is DDT interested in this? They are playing with tax payer’s precious money to ruin our well established institutions.
• That government is the best which governs the least
• that government is the best, which is felt the least
• That government is the best which spends the least
It’s a long weekend
Until Monday with more of DDT
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