How will the Gujarati, Mar-
athi, Punjabi, Tamil and people
speaking other Indian languag-
es will be able to read, discuss
and respond. The Government
of India must translate the
DNEP in all Indian Languages
and after translation must give
at least six month time to re-
spond. On reading this DNEP,
it is clearly understood that the
TSR Subramanian Commit-
tee Report and “Some Inputs
for Draft National Education
Policy, 2016” formed the basis
for this DNEP. It is painful to
note that none of the concerns
expressed by various organiza-
tions and individuals in the ear-
lier document was addressed in
the DNEP.
The DNEP is not placed on the
Premises of the Constitution of
India. DNEP is against the vi-
sion and the provision of the
Constitution of India. The lan-
guage of DNEP and the struc-
tural changes that it proposes is
as per the provisions demanded
in the General Agreement on
Trade in Service (GATS) under
the World Trade Organisation
(WTO). There is a consistent
demand that the Government
of India must withdraw the of-
fers in the Education and Health
sector given to the WTO. The
Government of India must
clarify its position on WTO-
GATS. The progress made in
the negotiations and commit-
ments given so far. WTO treats
Education as a commodity,
unless India pulls education
and health out of the negotia-
tion in WTO, providing access
to the global financial market
in education and health can-
not be prevented. If Education
and Health are handed over to
the Market Forces, Social Jus-
tice Measures cannot be fully
implemented. DNEP is silent
about the caste, which is a dis-
criminatory social order. DNEP
fails to recognise the social and
educational backwardness of
the large section of Indian Soci-
ety. The Social oppression faced
by the depressed communities
and the difficult living condi-
tion of the tribal communities
in a different part of India.DNEP must have spoken
about the progress made or not
through education in eradi-
cating untouchability, social
oppression and realizing the
vision of the Constitution of In-
dia, i.e. to establish a society of
equals.When there is an absence of
concern for social develop-
ment in DNEP, there is concern
expressed about the “return”
for investment, employabil-
ity, global need, international
mobility of students and fac-
ulty. While there is an absence
of concern regarding the less
number of Dalits and Tribal in
Doctoral or Post Doctoral Re-
search, there is much concern
to provide fellowship / scholar-
ship for foreign students. Vari-
ous proposals in the DNEP are
against various provisions the
Constitution of India.
Article 14 is violated when a
child of the affluent section has
the facility to attend the school
of its choice, but the child from
the disadvantaged community
has no other option except to
travel down to a school Com-
plex. School Complex is to
close thousands of Government
and Government aided school
that needs resources to develop.
Again, Article 14 is violated
when all the Indian Languages
are not given equal importance,
and one particular language is
given more prominence and
special provisions for its de-
velopment. Article 15, 16, 21
are violated when the Life with
Dignity could not be assured by
making special provisions for
the socially and educationally
backward classes of citizen in
admission, research fellowship,
appointment and promotion in
higher education. The DNEP24The DNEP
is not placed
on the
Premises
of the
Constitution
of India.
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