The All India Forum for Right to Education (AIFRTE), a platform of scholars, academics and teachers affiliated with varied organisations, held a protest right here on Tuesday demanding state-funded, free and equitable high quality training for all.
Questioning the current provisions inviting overseas universities to start out campuses in India, the group stated the transfer would now allow repatriation of earnings, and charging of charges with out regulation or higher limits. “While on one hand, we are witnessing rapid fee hike and promotion of self-financed courses, on the other hand, there has been a massive downward trend in funding for different scholarship schemes catering to SC/ST, OBC, minority and disabled students,” the platform stated.
They urged the Centre to roll back the National Education Policy of 2020 (NEP) and stated it went in opposition to the precept of training for all. They stated the NEP was being applied with out a dialogue in Parliament or State Assemblies and that it was being imposed on folks as an government determination.
The organisers additionally questioned the choice to scrap scholarships such because the Maulana Azad fellowship for college kids from minority communities. They alleged that the exclusion of SC, ST, OBC and Muslim college students from training on the whole, and better training specifically, was rising. “With the NEP, the process of privatisation and commodification of education which had begun in the preceding decades has taken on a new and rapid form. Closures and mergers of government schools, de-funding of higher educational institutions, withdrawing of scholarship schemes in schools and higher education, and enormous fee hike, make accessing equitable education impossible for the vast majority of this country,” the AIFRTE stated in a press release.
The assembly resolved to combat for elevated budgetary allocation on training to make sure the constitutional elementary proper to free, high quality and common training from kindergarten to post-graduation. “Funding of higher education institutions must only be through grants instead of loans that lead to growing personal and institutional indebtedness, and promotion of market-oriented self-financing courses,” the group demanded.
It requested the Centre to withdraw the centralised Common University Entrance Test (CUET) because the mode of admissions to undergraduate programmes for Central universities. “Standardisation has favoured CBSE students over other State boards, which has been reflected in the 97% CBSE student intake this year in Delhi University and a big drop in admissions of girl students,” the platform stated.
