New Education Policy
Sandeep Parashar
Faridabad, July 31 : Appreciating the new education policy, Chief Minister Manohar Lal has announced to implement it completely in Haryana from 2025 and celebrate New Education Policy Day on 29 July every year. On this, the All India Parents Association (AIPA) has said that the new education policy being implemented by the central government will increase the commercialization of education.
Because no provision has been made in this education policy to stop the arbitrariness being done by private college and school operators with parents. On the contrary, capitalists are being allowed to invest to open colleges and schools on PPP mode, this will further increase the loot and arbitrariness.
Till now, the colleges and schools which were being given government grants along with recognition, are being closed and the managers of such schools are being asked to make arrangements for raising the income of the school from their own resources.
Overall, education is being completely handed over to the market. In the new education policy, there is no talk of improving the standard of government education, qualitative and comprehensive improvement in government colleges and schools, giving fixed pay scales to government teachers, guaranteeing the security of their services, etc.
AIPA National President Ashok Agarwal Advocate and National General Secretary Kailash Sharma has said that there are many flaws in the new education policy which is very important to remove. Many letters have been written to the Prime Minister and the Union Education Minister on behalf of the IPA in detail about these shortcomings, apart from this, many educationists, legalists and teachers, parent organizations of the country have opposed many things of the new education policy but Haryana government is intent on implementing this flawed education policy. Kailash Sharma said that an eleven-point demand letter was also sent to Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding reforms in government and private education on behalf of AIPA and no proper action has been taken on it.
IPA says that the new education policy does not take into account all sections and their needs. Large population of the country is still dependent on government colleges and schools for education. But there has been no talk of improvement in them. Now the talk is going on that the participation of non-government institutions, NGOs, industrial houses should be increased in education and it is a matter of biggest concern. In the education policy. It has been said that private educational institutions will put their income expenditure in the public domain, but there has been no talk of getting their accounts checked and audited by the CAG or other government audit company.
There is no mention of how much statutory fees the private school management has to take in which funds and in which items the income has to be spent. There is nothing about stopping exploitation of teachers and other employees and equal pay for equal work. There is no system to curb the charge on the fees of private colleges and schools. There has also been no mention of extending the RTE Act to the 12th standard of the Right to Education and including minority schools in it.
Reducing the weight of school bags in the education policy is a good thing, but in 2019 also the central government had fixed the weight of the bags of children of all classes, it was not followed by the school managers. There is no mention in this education policy about what action will be taken against schools that do not follow it.