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Centre turning education into business
FAPTO Chairman Babu Reddy demands that the Centre fulfil its promise of allotting six per cent of GDP to the education sector
Vijayawada: FAPTO chairman P Babu Reddy has said that the Centre has turned education into business and instead of controlling it, the Centre has been encouraging the business by inviting the investments of corporates in education sector.
Speaking at the round-table conference on ‘National Educational Policy-2016’ at UTF State office here on Tuesday, he said the Centre should fulfil its promise of allotting six per cent of GDP to the education sector. He further demanded that the draft bill comprise the allotment of certain amount up to 10 per cent of Central budget towards education and asked the State governments to spend 20 per cent and Welfare department-10 per cent on education reforms. The government should also effectively implement KG to PG free education all over the country.
The meet was jointly organised by Federation of Andhra Pradesh Teachers Organisation (FAPTO) and United Teachers Federation (UTF). The teachers, analysts and other eminent personalities shared their views on the draft policy.
The members discussed the establishment of the education policy draft. Senior educationist Ramesh Patnaik spoke about the reservations in the draft. He stated that the government didn’t mention about the reservations for the deserved or socially backward classes in the draft policy.
He said the government has mentioned that there are around three crore students depending on government scholarships but it allotted a meagre amount which is sufficient to only two crore students. He further stated that the government is more focused on the implementation of Sanskrit language rather than other languages like Hindi.
The members of the teachers unions stated that the education policy of 2016 is much worse than that of 1986. The government didn’t put any efforts on the extension of age limit to compulsory education from 6-14 years to 3-18 years. The members demanded that the government continue no detention policy up to Class X instead of Class VI.
MLC Balasubramanyam said the schools are treating the students as robots and ignoring the importance of value education. He said that the HRD Ministry is making no effort in taking a leaf out of the book of education system of other countries. He stated that the completeness of education system or any policy will happen only when it can bring the last tribal child to school.
FAPTO general secretary G Hrudayaraj, educationist Parimi, UTF president V Venkateswara Rao and members of teachers union participated in the meeting.
