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New Delhi: Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has tightened the central government over the new education policy. He said that the central government has alleged that only its three agendas 3-C (centralization, commercialization and communalization) are being implemented through education. Gandhi alleged that the government is hiding its real intention behind high-profile education policy.
The government is very indifferent to the education of children and youth in India. In an editorial written in the country’s leading newspaper The Hindu, Sonia Gandhi wrote that in the last decade the track record of the central government has made it clear that its main concern is the integration of three main agendas in education, it has no concern for people. He is only concerned with the implementation of his three main agendas.
He said that the central government is closing or merging government schools. More than 89,000 schools have been closed in a decade and more than 43,000 schools are open. This shows that the tendency of commercialization and privatization in education is increasing and third, textbooks and courses are being intense communalization.
Former Congress President said that In the last 11 years, this government has become known for centralization of power. He said that the education department has suffered the most due to this. The Education Advisory Board, constituted by the Union and State Education Ministers, has not met even once since 2019.
Sonia said that no talks were held with the state governments before implementing NEP 2020. When this subject comes in the list of states. The government’s new policy lacks dialogue, but it also includes a policy of threats. Referring to higher education, Sonia Gandhi said that the Center The state government’s authority in the appointment of vice -chancellors in universities has been abolished. This is an attack on federalism. The poor of the country have been excluded from the education sector. He is kept in extremely expensive and private control schools.
Along with this, he said that the central government has given a third emphasis on communalism. It aims to complete long -term conceptual projects of RSS and BJP. This also includes creating hatred through the education system.
The assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and the history related to the Mughals has been removed from NCERT books. Apart from this, the Preamble of the Indian Constitution was also removed, which later had to be brought back after heavy protests.