[Here is a letter send to the LS Speaker, PM, HR Minister and Others,
signed by a small team of educationists,teachers and student union
leaders who represented of four different Organizations]
To,
July 22, 2009
Ms. Meira Kumar,
Honorable Speaker,
Lok Sabha, Parliament of India,
New Delhi
Dear
[All India Students Association's (AISA) document on the topic
forwarded here]:-
AISA's Preliminary Note on UPA's Education 'Reforms'
The UPA, in its new avatar has promised us educational ‘reform’ as
neoliberal economists declaim that Manmohan Singh should “set our
campuses free”. However, the
Nothing is farcical than this Bill. Firstly, it states nothing about
pre-schooling to prepare the child for the first standard thereby
impliedly approving the multi-million dollar nursery school business.
Apparently students in the govt. schools lack adequate skills than
their peers in private
The Bill falls significantly short of what it should have had been. In
very many ways. No doubt about that.
But it also marks a significant improvement over, at least opens up
very real possibilities in that direction, the actual situation as
obtains today.
Hence, the struggle ahead should be
