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Centre destroying education sector: AIUEC
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Both State and Central governments are pushing public sector education to the brink of death, stated All India University Employees Confederation (AIUEC) president Bhavani Shanker Hota here on Friday. He said as many as 220 private universities had been established in Rajasthan State alone. Soon the Centre was planning to open doors to foreign investments in education sector. This would push public sector universities to brink of death.
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Warangal: Both State and Central governments are pushing public sector education to the brink of death, stated All India University Employees Confederation (AIUEC) president Bhavani Shanker Hota here on Friday. He said as many as 220 private universities had been established in Rajasthan State alone. Soon the Centre was planning to open doors to foreign investments in education sector. This would push public sector universities to brink of death.
Addressing the 12th national conference, which began at Kakatiya University here on Friday, Hota, a former MP, observed that education had become a major money-spinner. Hence State and Central governments had been promoting private players in education sector in a systematic way, he pointed out.
About 500 delegates representing over 100 universities from 22 states in the country attended the three-day conference. It was held for the first time in Telangana State at the KU to discuss the impact of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation (LPG) on public sector education.
Not a single university in India could find place among top 200 universities in the world. “Why this is happening? The reason was the central funding to universities was poor and the UGC reduced its grants. In every university, there was 30 to 40 per cent shortage of teaching and non-teaching staff and infrastructure was poor.
Universities were facing difficulty in paying salaries and pensions,” Hota explained. According to Assocham India, only 10 per cent of the graduates coming out of the private universities were employable. Yet, there was a rapid increase in the growth of private universities, he added.
He, along with the AIUEC general secretary M B Sajjan called upon the university employees to stand united and fight to protect their interests and public sector education while Sajjan felt that the public sector education was under attack from those trying to make education a commodity.
MLA D Vinay Bhasker also asked the confederation leaders to fight unitedly by drawing inspiration from the Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, who through peaceful struggle, had succeeded to achieve statehood to Telangana. MP A Sitaram Naik said the Telangana State government was planning to amend the Universities Act to address lacunae in the field of higher education.
He suggested that the confederation compile a report of the findings at the conference, which he said, would be taken to the notice of HRD Ministry. The KU in-charge Vice Chancellor T Chiranjeevulu pointed out the liberalisation policy had improved quality of life in the country and increased opportunities with certain unpleasant effects due to aggressive competition. The governments were trying to reduce the ill effects. The conference chairman P Kondal Reddy, convener K Shankar and others were present.
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