Do something, Mr Speaker

Rs 80 crore, respectively. And, as many have pointed out, the so-called increase in allocations to central universities in this year’s budget is really all the unspent money left over from past years. We don’t know what the Supreme Court judgment on reservations will be. But this pattern of utilising the extra money allocated for that purpose last year suggests one of two things. Either the Government has given up on reservations. Or it has decided not to prepare our institutions. Suppose the Supreme Court were to uphold the implementation of the quota for OBCs. Our institutions will be exactly in the same state they were last year. There has been no preparation. This is another instance of the way in which education has indeed become a numbers game. We have killed the system and now want to bloat the corpse.

Perhaps the Lok Sabha speaker ought to realise that while rich students in India can secede from the system, it is the poor that suffer most by depredations his party has wreaked on both the public and the private systems. If the speaker truly feels for his granddaughter’s generation he ought not to go on and on about the syllabus.

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