Dear Colleagues ,
Kindly take the Petition below on the Corporatisation of
Education seriously , it has the support of eminent educationists
among other Professors and students all over the country .
Niloufer Bhagwat
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From: Kamayani
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 8:49 PM
Subject: [ANN:3871] Corporatisation of Higher Education - Sign
OnlinePetitionto Prime Minister.
apologies for cross posting
Please read the petition and sign it if you agree with it.
http://www.petitiononline.com/AIFRTE/
Dear All,
We are approaching you on behalf of the All India Forum for Right to
Education (AIF-RTE). An Online Petition to the Prime Minister regarding higher
education is attached for your endorsement. Simultaneously, a signature
campaign on university and college campuses is being launched across the
country. The petition is planned to be presented to the Prime Minister in the
third week of February 2011.
The petition is concerned with the crisis that the Indian higher (including
professional) education is undergoing as a result of the rapid pace of the
neo-liberal assaults. Public funding is steadily being withdrawn.
Public-private partnership (PPP), foreign direct investment (FDI) and Foreign
Universities are all part of the deeper malaise. Unregulated fee hikes are
raising the cost of education beyond the economic capacity of even the middle
class and increasingly forcing the parents to sell their property in order to
afford higher education for their children.
In its latest move, the central government placed four Bills in the
Parliament in May 2010, including one on facilitating the establishment of
Foreign Educational Institutions in India. At least two more Bills in the same
vein are ready to be placed. These Bills seem to be pre-requisites for bringing
higher education under the WTO-GATS regime. Indeed, these policy shifts call
for a nation-wide public protest and reconstruction of the higher education
policy to ensure equal opportunity for quality education to the widest possible
sections of society as per the Constitution.
AIF-RTE staged a dharna on 26th July 2010 outside the gate of the Ministry of
HRD in New Delhi and presented a Memorandum on these issues to the Prime
Minister but to no avail. On the same day, we also presented a Memorandum to
the Chairperson, Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on HRD
with request that an AIF-RTE delegation be allowed to explain our stand to the
Committee but we have not received any response so far.
Hence this online petition. Please read the petition and sign it if you agree
with it.
http://www.petitiononline.com/AIFRTE/
Also, we need student and teacher volunteers to organize signature campaigns
on university and college campuses all over the country. If interested, please
email to us at [email protected] or contact at Tel.: (040)
2330-5266/ M: 09440980396 (Sh. Ramesh Patnaik)/ 09431102680 (Dr. V.N. Sharma).
Yours sincerely,
Members of the Presidium, All India Forum for Right to Education (AIF-RTE)
Sh. Prabhakar Arade, All India Federation of Elementary Teachers’
Organizations
Kolhapur, Maharashtra.
Dr. Meher Engineer, Former Director, Bose Institute, Kolkata.
Prof. G. Haragopal, Centre for Human Rights, University of Hyderabad.
Sh. Kedar Nath Pandey, General Secretary, Bihar Madhyamik Shikshak Sangh.
Prof. Madhu Prasad, Zakir Husain College, University of Delhi.
Prof. Anil Sadgopal, Former Dean, Faculty of Education, Delhi University
(Bhopal, M.P.).
Sh. Sunil, Samajwadi Jan Parishad, Distt. Hoshangabad, M.P.
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Dr.V.N.Sharma
Cell No.9431102680,
Member, Secretariat, All India Forum for Right to Education (AIF-RTE)
&
Working Committee Member, Jan Sansad
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