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Shekhar Gupta is Editor-in-Chief of ThePrint and one of India’s most distinguished journalists. A recipient of the Padma Bhushan and multiple journalism awards, he has reported on key events in India and from around the world since the 1980s. At ThePrint, he does a daily online show, Cut the Clutter, in which he dissects, analyses, and contextualises complex daily news developments and current affairs. He also writes his weekly column National Interest.
Excellent column by Shri P B Mehta in Indian Express on the “ centralisation of education “. A conscious policy choice. Driven by ideology, has produced mediocrity.
Quite conveniently my leige has skipped in calling out reservations as another colossal road block for youth. Its ok…we need a spine for it.
Decentralisation will not help. The govt should enforce IB curriculum and Singapore maths. All state boards, NCERT, and ICSE should be shut down.
Bad idea sir! When Engineering JEE is centralized for so many years and there are no leaks, why can’t NEET be managed?
Never bring politics into education.
Biggest mistake of BJP government.
After the third victory, a sense of hubris and invincibility set in and they started to tweak the education system to appease hindutva.
Teach children how to think, not what to think.
What are shekhar Gupta’s views on private schools exorbitant arbitrary fees ?? Will free market solve this ?? Is it enough ?? If not what is ??
A grim note to start the weekend on. 2. Centralise everything if you have the bandwidth to see it through. Make a glittering success story like the towers of Shenzhen. Or let the states do things their way. That automatically puts a premium on calibre and performance. Let Uttar Pradesh and Bihar catch up with Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, or pay the price for failing to do so. The same principle is violated in sharing the central tax pool. Bihar gets seven rupees for each rupee it contributes, Karnataka gets about fifteen paise. 3. Consider the list of education ministers over the last twelve years, starting with the first one. Education czar for a country whose demographic dividend window has begun to shut, state by state. Is there an ability to comprehend the immensity of the challenge, find solutions. And, of course, the unfortunate conviction that education should march to an ideological beat. Its effect seen now in elite institutions like IIT and IIM, where they absolutely do not belong. How many Indian higher education institutions in the list of the world’ top 500 and 100. JNU, one of our best, being subjected to the same stresses. 4. Perhaps a companion column on Employment, where Education is supposed to lead. The heart stirring promise of two crore jobs a year, obviously from manufacturing. The flop show of Make in India.
We are again running around in circles and Mr Shekhar has conveniently picked up one issue ignoring the other as if people werent fed up with high capitation fees. When one speaks of decentralisation, who benefits ? In an ideal competitive and fair system, every entrepreneur would have had a fair shot at establishing a medical college or higher education institute. Instead what actually happened with regard private medical colleges in Southern states ? Politicians inserted themselves in it and were in direct conflict of interest. This is NOT whataboutery but was a lived reality which NEET sought to address. The Mr Shekhar is ignoring this again shows that he too is unfortunately taking a myopic view of the issue in line with current “trends”. Technical education has been long decentralised. Have the private colleges come even close to challenging the supremacy and research output of IITs ? NO ! A big fat NO ! Problem is not with NEET. Problem is plain and simple – Indian youth be in GenZ or the older millenials always sought a level playing field. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Who gave CJP to speak on everyone’s behalf?
What reforms have they suggested?
They are an unelected body making political demands.
Better stand in an election with a manifesto and prove themselves.
Different people want different things from the education system. Are the CJP any experts on education? No. They are instagram rabble rousers.