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Cong, intellectuals pick holes in education policies
Intellectuals joined hands with Congress in addressing ‘faulty’ education and employment policy being adopted by the Central and State governments. They held that the progressive policy adopted by the UPA government was being intentionally reversed at the cost of human resource development.
Hyderabad: Intellectuals joined hands with Congress in addressing ‘faulty’ education and employment policy being adopted by the Central and State governments. They held that the progressive policy adopted by the UPA government was being intentionally reversed at the cost of human resource development.
During a workshop organised by Congress on ‘Education and Employment – Promises and Performance’ at Gandhi Bhavan on Saturday, they called upon the party leadership to be more proactive in playing the role of constructive opposition to the government in dealing with these issues. Reminding decades of rule after post independence, the party was asked to come out with a ‘blue print’ as to how the State government should resolve these issues.
Speaking on the occasion, Prof Kancha Ilaiah referred to communalisation of curriculum, distortion of history and scuttling of academic and intellectual freedom. He said the ‘New Education Policy’ adopted by the Rajiv Gandhi government in 1986 was one of the best that suited the country.
Given the BJP’s agenda, it now wants to promote religious extremism by changing syllabus of the primary education. “In the place of Gandhi and Ambedkar, our national heroes would be Savarkar, Golwarkar and Deendayal Upadhyaya,” he cautioned. Prof Ilaiah directly linked the issue of farmers’ suicides in the State to the growing expenditure per family on educational needs.
He said the Central government had withdrawn support to model schools opened during UPA II government for weaker sections, with the budget of Rs 4,000 crore.Prof P L Vishweshwar Rao expressed strong opposition to promotion of Astronomy, Vedas and Palmistry as science by the Central government.
He said that the freedom fighters of the country fought for a progressive nation, but if this kind of education system was adopted India would be pushed back to dark ages. Decrying the KCR government which promised KG to PG free education, he said it should have earmarked 30 per cent in the budget during the last two years, but only 6 to 7 per cent was given, pushing the education to lowest of priorities.
Prof K Nageshwar, former MLC and Editor, The Hans India demanded that the State government release a ‘White Paper’ on number of jobs required in the new State, after bifurcation. He held that the government was responsible for dilly-dallying the issue of contract and outsourcing employees and said it should resolve it for once.
According to him, Rs 100 crore would be sufficient to take up programme towards preparing youth for competitive exams, so that the government gets best-brains for various government posts. He felt Telangana State, which is mineral rich, has huge opportunity for job creation.
“Singareni Colleries, which provided jobs to more than 1 lakh men now has only 60,000 workforce. Because of the negligence of the government, the PSUs are being ignored,” he said. He asked the Congress to form fact-finding teams to study the current situation in different universities in the State and suggested to come up with a ‘blue print’ for solving the problems of education and employment sectors.
