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| Education must come with quality | | | | As we grow into a competitive world, there is no idea of life without education. As the saying goes `no life without water' so also it is true that there is no life without education. Earlier, education was limited till reading of a letter or knowing how to add and subtract. In new age, this concept has been rejected. Now, it is the belief that without education there is only darkness. Accepting the necessity of education the race of forming future through education and importance of education has got a boost. When the people understood the importance of it, they are now after it. Money is also being used in this race. In this way the medium, poor and extremely poor class became backward. Right to education in constitution had not been made compulsory; hence this situation is taking adverse shape. Phases of advance education were decided and the poor hardly could pace up to a few steps. However, now it is respite that the central government has made education as a fundamental right. Getting education has now become the right of every child. No private or government education institution could deprive a child from this right. Government would chalk out basic structure of right to education. Rs 2 lakh 28 thousand crore is likely to be spent on it. A secretary level committee would be constituted to draft and implement the policy. Children of 6 to 14 years age group would get benefit of it. Poor and deprived class children would get 25 per cent reservation after the bill comes into force. The decision of central government on basic right to education is commendable. The poor and deprived class children would get better opportunity which was not available due to lack of money. However, the policy has to be worked out as pragmatic and practical. In Jammu and Kashmir we have seen massive expansion of education over past few years. Hundreds of new schools and dozens of new colleges have come up. Number of universities and deemed universities is also growing up. The expansion is much larger in the private sector as more and more new institutions of higher learning are coming up with a fast pace even in rural area of the state. However, what still lacks is the quality. In race of quantitative expansion both the government and the private sector have done a blatant compromise with quality. The private sector still does little better fearing government crackdown but the government itself has not been seen applying such rules to the institutions run by it. New institutions are lacking in infrastructure and staff. When such is the scenario then what is purpose of having this expansion on papers alone. Government must see into it that people get benefits of education expansion. |
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