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| Lay stress on creation of mutual trust | | | KHUSHWANT S RANIAL | 1/20/2012 11:26:04 PM |
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Education is the most potent tool of spreading knowledge among its seekers for their harmonious growth and personality development of every individual .In order to achieve the target, the state has shown deep amount of interest especially at the lower level by giving it rich amount of recognition but the higher education has suffered and remained a neglected part in comparison to elementary level of education. The implications of this policy are that funds earmarked for higher education are very limited to exercise rich amount of experimentation.
In order to meet the deficit, government planned to rely upon the private players to lend support and shoulder some burden in lessening the miseries of increasing demand for having an access to the education .In other words ,privatisation of higher education in our nation has not come about due to an ideological commitment but has been thrust upon it. The contribution of private sector covering nearly 50% in medicinal field, 60% in the management studies and above than 90% in the area of engineering, management studies, and pharmaceuticals studies etc. is still not seeking due weight age despite private sectors laudable contribution in extending an access to the education. An apprehension is raised about the intention over the monopolisation of higher education by the private partners.
In fact, the fear appears to be justified on the account of the fact certain private promoters have misused the licences afforded to run the show. The rampant extension to the opening ETT colleges and B. Ed colleges particularly in our own state of J& k , without holding basic infrastructure on the grounds and further hoarding of such licences by a few particular groups is in itself a sheer example of rampant corruption and nature of the education imparted and the interest involved of both the governors who accord recognition in lieu of hefty pecuniary gains and the governing bodies who run the institutions on papers and not on the grounds.
Such an opportunists have made the education a commercial plot and a mere laughing stock. It is truly a shame and shocking revelation to admit openly about the gross misconduct of the violations of rules, policies and procedures adopted while recommending such proposed cases. Inadvertently, a pseudo caste system has been created among the public set ups regardless of the quality of education rendered by them, being considered a notch above the private sector institutions. Further government agencies which provide grants for research have framed rules that discriminate against the private institutions.
The stress is laid more on the origin of the institutions than the quality of education rendered by it. This environment creates confusion in the minds of general public which does not have strong awareness about mechanism pertaining to the higher education in India as a result of which people failed to distinguish between the deemed University and state's private University .Many hold this viewpoint that after fulfilling some conditions, deemed University may become eligible for the full fledged University status. But such a phase is not a good sign for a developing nation upon whom world rests hope to be a better place of learning in the South Asia.
The world pins a ray of hope keeping in view our past pristine glory in the field of education. Today we have arrived at the crossroads where we are unable to recommend education to be either a service provider as an occupation or a mere industry despite the fact that the Articles 19(1)(g) and 26 (a) of the constitution guarantees educational institutions imparting education to seek profits and may be allow as well to come under the category of occupation but over profiteering has been not allowed and restricted to large extent.
At the international level even the World Trade Organisation has accepted that provisions of education is a service that can be traded and included in GATS .India being the member of WTO has almost accepted that status as well. It does not mean that all the private regulators are black sheep because there are equally good numbers of institutions who have rendered yeoman service for the better of mankind. In fact time has arrived to introduce a bill in the Parliament regarding the Higher Education and research work to subsume the UGC and other regulatory bodies. Also if the private partners have to improve their degrading image then they to set up the yardstick through a consensus formulae. They have to overcome the deficit trust by laying stress on the creation of mutual trust to prove beneficial both for the students and stakeholders.
An enabling regulatory mechanism which gives respects to the autonomy of universities must be supported and encouraged to cover the need of the hour. In the prevailing scenario, beyond doubt ,the purchasing capacity of the common man has increased and for seeking an access to the education, at least middle class can go to any extent to buy the education but what is required to build an environment that policies of the government ensures plentiful social returns on the education. Our society desires for quality education because it rates education to be the sole elevator in the social hierarchy and for achieving economic independence..Hence government must concentrate on the quality than dissipating energies on issues like regulating fee structures. The newer proposed policy by the government to hold one entrance examination for seeking admissions to different professional courses is a very welcome move as it would reduce time, space and wastage of energy but its implementation at the earliest desired for the higher education as well. Really the need of the hour is to identify the relative strengths of private and public sector institutions and aid them to complement each other to synergise the national effort in making India a powerful sea of knowledge otherwise days are not far off that poor section of society will remain deprived of the higher education and get grinded unnecessarily.
Also, Govt. must devise sound policies to raise certain economic ceiling limits in terms of economic benefits gained by the private enterprises from the beneficiary's i.e, private partners entrusted with an aim to spread the education among the educand and the same be utilised for raising healthy infrastructure in their own governed institution which are lacking due to availability of resources to check the exploitation by the private partners and promote equality among the both private and state owned running institution to curb the lopsided rush. Let we strive for excellence to make education a field of unifying cultures without over emphasising the spirit of collecting the funds and money . |
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