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Tavleen Singh Tags : tavleensingh, Kapil Sibal Posted: Sunday , Jun 28, 2009 at 0215 hrs

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In India the opposite has happened. Fine institutions of higher learning have gone to ruin in the past thirty years because of too much government interference. They are not allowed to sneeze without government permission leave alone do such grand things as decide when fees should go up and how much professors should earn. Bizarrely such decisions are controlled by officialdom.

If Kapil Sibal can end the licence raj for education, like the Prime Minister once did for industry, he will have done more than any HRD Minister has done in living memory. If he fails then there is no hope of us ever building the 1,500 additional universities that the Government of India’s own Knowledge Commission says we need. There is no hope of us being able to build the millions more schools we need if we are to stop being the country with the largest number of illiterate people in the world.

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make solar panelBy: make solar panel | 11-Nov-2009 Reply | Forward if people like you and those with bank accounts like yours can buy seats then their privileged progeny become doctors, lawyers, engineers or writers, and influence our public and private lives, regardless of their merit. since you so loudly aoppose resrvations.make solar panel

"literacy, then scholarship"By: shereen ratnagar | 09-Aug-2009 Reply | Forward Indian journalists do not read before they venture. Or perhaps, as Anil Sadagopal is not gora, Singh did not bother to read his piece in The Telegraph of 28 July. She would not have written her paean of praise had she bothered to go deep into the primary education act. As usual, she reflects the middle-class view, by definition blinkered and superficial. I read her column to find out what the mindless English-speaking middle classes are thinking. Sometimes it is hilarious, often just distasteful.

money talksBy: gautam | 02-Jul-2009 Reply | Forward "The new Minister of HRD has spoken out strongly against ‘capitation’ fees being charged by private colleges. Why should this be any business of the Government of India? When seats in medical and engineering colleges are in such short supply why should colleges not auction them to the highest bidder and if someone is prepared to pay, so what?"Madame singh, the so what is easily answered, if people like you and those with bank accounts like yours can buy seats then their privileged progeny become doctors, lawyers, engineers or writers, and influence our public and private lives, regardless of their merit. since you so loudly aoppose resrvations that are based on birth, i wonder how u can flaunt the hypocrisy that allows you to advocate education for those with inherited money. As always u display the best and worst of the liberal church with the fervour of a naya mussalaman ;-)

India is becoming a knowledge based colony of foreign corporate houses and universitiesBy: Jay | 29-Jun-2009 Reply | Forward As per many published reports in many reputed journals, the quality of original thinkers and scientists are deteriorating very fast since independence despite of increasing funding, and increase in number of institutions of higher education/research. Our so-called “elite” institutes like IITs, IISc are not doing much better in terms of quality research where original talent is needed, as compared to teaching. In reality, it’s very unfortunate situation in knowledge based industries in India (both in IT and Biotech). India is now used more and more by multinational companies to get their routine jobs done. This situation is slowly spreading to public education and research sector as well. It’s a very frightening dream that India is becoming a knowledge based colony of foreign corporate houses and universities. I wish I am wrong! Drastic school education reform is urgently needed to restore our past glory first and then go beyond that, than to cut the root and water on the top.

free education from licence rajBy: satya chatterjee | 29-Jun-2009 Reply | Forward Home grown scientific work of excellence that is still unmatched was accomplished during 1920-1930. Names such as Sir J.C. Bose (considered as the father of wireless communication before Marconi), Nobel Laureate Sir C V Raman (Raman effect), scientists of exceptional innovative ability like Prof Satyen Bose (Bose-Einstein theory)and Dr Meghnad Saha rocked the British establishment because these brilliant sons of the soil proved that Indians could think in India and need nor travel overseas. However, all of them educated themselves under British system at that time. India after independence should just have copied the British method and continued unpgrading on a regular basis. Licence Raj method of IAS officer brains was not necessary.

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