The Ministry of Human Resource and Development, looks calm but planning and executing a hell lot ideas and policies without much consultations and discussions with the stakeholders.
God knows what this new government has in its mind for the education and research system of the country. They have already lowered the low budget allocated for education and research, from about 83000 cr to 69000 cr. The funds for higher education has been reduced to 13000cr from 16900cr. Quite a big reduction!!
The remaining responsibility of damage has been handed over to MHRD. They are planning to revive the Central University Act to centralise everything. I mean everything!
There will be common test for admission to all universities, admission procedure will be common, syllabus will be common, material will be common, and even faculties will be shared among universities making them common too! At first look, it looks out to be quite nice and decent system, but its not! Just imagine, if this is passed, what will the system be like?
One will have to give only one exam for getting admission to any university. He will have the same course to study at DU and also the CSJM (Kanpur university). He will have chances to get lectures from any professor in any Indian university, he will have to study the same things, he will have to give central exam, i.e. a kind of board exam having all boards. I mean what the hell! Why will i try to study harder to secure admission in some “good university” (according to present system) when ill be getting same thing at my hometown? Ill just clear the cutoff and enjoy! This system will discourage the very soul of competition and necessity to study. This is not going to improve the bad ones but surely degrade the good ones.
This “1 nation 1 university” scheme will be a disaster for the unique identity and specialization that each university holds today which is developed over decades of work and influenced by geographical conditions and traditions. The soul of the university will be lost. The very idea with which each university was established will be lost. And what will we get in return? Improved level of literally horrible universities pulling down the very high standard dream universities!
Moreover, sharing of faculty. In other words, faculty will be transferable. That means, government will have power to transfer a faculty from any university to any university in India. That’s like the Civil Services. And this weapon of “transfer” is being used traditionally to punish or favor. This will induce politics in the education system and the players this time would be faculties. India cannot afford that at this stage.
There are rumors that this act of government is inspired by Sangh Parivar. Who have tirelessly worked for decades to modify every structure existing according to their ideology. This would mean that the curriculum will have more of traditions than research, more of Sangh interpretation of history than what is acceptable world wide. The appointments to educational bodies like IITs, ICSSR would be through Sangh, who will then have gala time implementing their ideology and agendas! That’s dangerous! Give it a thought!
Students and teachers k janhit me jaari! :p
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