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Kritika Sharma works as Senior Assistant Editor for ThePrint, covering education, culture and other policy issues. An English Honors graduate from Hansraj College Delhi University, she completed her journalism from Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan in 2010 and has been working as a journalist in Delhi since then. After having traveled the length and breadth of Delhi as a crime reporter in the initial days of her career, she now wishes to travel all over the country looking for good, human interest stories.
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The situation is very serious. Nobody is paying any attention to the education and appointments..Ever since the so called re-forms were initiated by the team Dr.Man Mohan Singh and Shri Kapil Sibal, it has brought disaster in the field of education. Now campuses are not the place of learning but all types of ugly politics is played in the campuses. Now almost all the political parties have their branches in the campuses. Similarly, all the caste and religion groups have their branches in the campuses like Khap panchayats. Now more than 50% of the students are non-serious students. If such students are ousted of the campuses, all the major problems of the educational institutions will be solved, like shortage of teachers and staff, problem of infrastructure, discipline, politics, finance etc. Situation is so bad that even peons and sweepers give invigilation duties and students sit very close to each other, even three students on the same desk. The government should development some machenism to appoint brilliant scholars directly. Re-forms must be initiated to oust the non-serious students out of the campuses.
The post of Asst Professor was seen as the most respectful job in this country. I tried, struggled and succeed but the word “ad-hoc” has put me in such category which is now seen as the “last resort” by the people. The journey to get this job was full of impediments but after getting this it becomes worst. How can our society be so indifferent towards education? We are offered to offer our service for 120 days and forced to be unavailable on 121st day, for what? Not to get eligible for permanent job. This is the biggest mockery of our education system. Students slog like a donkey to get admission in reputed University or college but they are unaware of the fact that these so called prestigious institutes do not have complete workforce to provide them expected world class education or availing the service of temporary “gurus”. The biggest question is- why is it so? The simple and plain answer is “lack of education” in our society.
By an Ad-hoc Assistant Professor