Dear Ashish, In 1905, a Bill similar to RTE Bill was brought by British Govt. to make Education compulsory for children in India. Under the leadership of Maharaja of Darbhanga 600 Rajas, Maharajas and Zamindars wrote to the British Govt. that if this Bill was passed they would not find labourers for their fields and so no Lagan would be paid. In light of this the Bill be scrapped. It was followed by almost non-existant industrialists and the Bill was scrapped.
The RTE Bill 2008 is desired to have similar effect. It has been passed yet it will mean the same thing not only in writing but in spirit too. It depends on where you stand in the social structure - with the elites or non-elites? The RTE Bill is not vague about its beneficial aspect going only to the rich and exploiting elite class. If you read the Bill and analyse it properly you will find nothing for the poor and downtrodden, nothing free nor compulsory for over 80% of the children. 'Everything Sarkari is bad' should not be the gospel anymore. Private institutions have shown their colour by now. I faced problems with ICICI Bank and presently I am engaged with Reliance Mobile & Phone services, Tata Sky, Tatabp Solar and what not. Months and months are passing without response or action. Just look at the Private Schools. In every city there is turmoil, protests, dharna or court case of some kind against their fee enhancement by 50% or more in one jerk. How many of the Internet saavy middle class people will stand for how long? just wait and see. My suggestion is that pl. read the Bill and read the suggestions made by AIF-RTE and try to understand the inherent weakness of the Bill. I hope this will do. vns --- In [email protected], Ashish Kumar <bssb...@...> wrote: > > At one instant it too seemed to me that its an unfortunate thing that > happened. But no, look at the other side, it has opened up the channels for > the government to muster up enough money for the education. Owing to a large > population which we have the government does not and cannot have the money > required for the educating the massses while maintaing the quality. So, > with this bill the goverenemnt has created a platform for mass eductaion > while focussing on the niche area. Few of the many things which i foresee > from this bill are > > 1. by involving the private sector in education the governement can raise > the education growth exponentially through PPP public and private > partnership which is till now limited to infrastructure. > > 2. By introducing clauses of reservation for the disadvantaged children the > governemnt can maintain its societal equilibrium. > > 3. We all know that the education in private school in better than most of > the government schools, so the quality will be maintained. > > 4. It will create a compitition between the governement schools and private > schools and this in long run will create force to the schools imparting > lower quality of education to either shape up or close the shop. It simple > terms the participatory economics will set the ball rolling. > > While sharing its load for the basic mass education the governement can then > concentrate on creating specialised technical universities and medical > universities which are equally important for the growth. To modernize just > 1500 engineering college to IIT level it costs 5 billion dollers to the > govenment that means 25 thousand crore, and it is for just 1500 college, in > tamilanadu alone there are 3500 engineering colleges. > > So, in i believe there is no need to panic, whats wrong if the governemnt is > sharing its load, to make the governance more effective. > > Let me know what u all think. -- Dr.V.N.Sharma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dr.V.N.Sharma "Those who have the privilege to know, have the duty to act." Albert Einstein "The only thing necessary for Evil to Flourish is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke
