NEW DELHI: The CPM mentioned on Thursday it's going to oppose the government’s bid to interchange the University Grants Commission (UGC) Act with the proposed Higher Education Commission of India in Parliament and termed the transfer as an try to keep watch over funding and educational content material of institutions of upper learning.
Party normal secretary Sitaram Yechury wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing fear over how the government’s plan to interchange the University Grants Commission (UGC) with a new frame would adversely impact higher schooling in India, like an “exterior enemy” destroying a country. Opposing the Draft Bill, Yechury additionally requested the PM to carry wider consultations with all stakeholders moderately than rushing the law to parliament.
CPM additionally mentioned it's going to forge a platform of like-minded secular, democratic forces to oppose the Draft Bill in its current shape. “Education is being reduced to being profit-making stores. The entire effort is to switch the curricula and the learn about of history is being reduced to being the learn about of Hindu mythology,” Yechury mentioned.
Alleging that the Bill would immediately affect the accessibility of upper schooling to all sections of society, Yechury mentioned Dalits, tribals and backward categories would no longer be capable to afford schooling if the changes proposed by way of the government had been to head through. “Government needs to keep watch over both in the case of funding and educational content material. Instead of selling clinical mood, even though, as is laid down within the Constitution of India, the BJP-RSS govt is pushing for an entire communalisation of the schooling machine,” Yechury mentioned. He additionally mentioned he was hopeful that all secular democratic events — especially those who fought against social inequity — would join the protests.
Former MP and CPM politburo member Nilotpal Basu additionally mentioned that the government has no longer whilst pushing for the substitute of the UGC Act, be capable to supply plentiful justifications for the transfer. “There is a case for amending the provisions of the UGC Act, 1956 and strengthening the UGC... However, there's no case for dismantling the UGC and fragmenting the purposes of regulatory our bodies.”
The Left leader additionally mentioned that the draft Bill is an “instrument to soothe company interests” and attract non-public sector funding in higher schooling by way of neglecting the challenges that confront public-funded higher instructional institutions.
Party normal secretary Sitaram Yechury wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing fear over how the government’s plan to interchange the University Grants Commission (UGC) with a new frame would adversely impact higher schooling in India, like an “exterior enemy” destroying a country. Opposing the Draft Bill, Yechury additionally requested the PM to carry wider consultations with all stakeholders moderately than rushing the law to parliament.
CPM additionally mentioned it's going to forge a platform of like-minded secular, democratic forces to oppose the Draft Bill in its current shape. “Education is being reduced to being profit-making stores. The entire effort is to switch the curricula and the learn about of history is being reduced to being the learn about of Hindu mythology,” Yechury mentioned.
Alleging that the Bill would immediately affect the accessibility of upper schooling to all sections of society, Yechury mentioned Dalits, tribals and backward categories would no longer be capable to afford schooling if the changes proposed by way of the government had been to head through. “Government needs to keep watch over both in the case of funding and educational content material. Instead of selling clinical mood, even though, as is laid down within the Constitution of India, the BJP-RSS govt is pushing for an entire communalisation of the schooling machine,” Yechury mentioned. He additionally mentioned he was hopeful that all secular democratic events — especially those who fought against social inequity — would join the protests.
Former MP and CPM politburo member Nilotpal Basu additionally mentioned that the government has no longer whilst pushing for the substitute of the UGC Act, be capable to supply plentiful justifications for the transfer. “There is a case for amending the provisions of the UGC Act, 1956 and strengthening the UGC... However, there's no case for dismantling the UGC and fragmenting the purposes of regulatory our bodies.”
The Left leader additionally mentioned that the draft Bill is an “instrument to soothe company interests” and attract non-public sector funding in higher schooling by way of neglecting the challenges that confront public-funded higher instructional institutions.
Opposition gears up to oppose draft Higher Education Commission Bill
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