C O V E R S T O R Y

Over the years the education system of the

country have been facing huge challenges of

commercialisation, centralisation and com-

munalisation. We have time and again raised

the issues ranging from social justice to cam-

pus democracy and quality of education to

accessibility. This document have been pre-

pared keeping all those discussions in mind

and listening different sections on how do

they perceive the NEP. We recognize that the

integral democratic processes, constitution-

al outlooks and progressive approach were

missing in the very making of the policy

documents which itself has made the draft

ill-prepared. Merely, less than two months

have been given for the public to study the

484 page (in English script) document (and

in Hindi it is about 650 pages) for submit-

ting their feedback. In fact the document has

not been made available in different regional

languages which itself makes the lesser pos-

sibility of large participation of people of all

walks of life in the process. Among the eleven

members in the committee who drafted the

education policy more than half of them are

neither experienced people from academia

nor educationalists. Some of them were just

part of the administrative positions at differ-

Resist the further

privatisation, centralisation

and communalisation

of education

Reject New education policy

T he central executive committee of SFI releases this note following a wide consultation

throughout the country regarding the draft of New Education Policy (henceforth NEP) placed

by the NDA government. We would continue the same process with larger participants in all

the states and produce a detailed report on how the NEP is going to affect the education system

in each state, later. Here, we are drawing the attention of the public to some of the crucial ele-

ments included in the document. It is also about certain key areas and issues which have been

neglected in the policy document. In general we demand a complete re-working on the policy

approach with much more deliberations and study about the existing educational system all

over the country.

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