Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal says reforms in the education sector should have started with the economic reforms. In this interaction with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, Sibal says the Right to Education Bill will be passed in this session, the Foreign University Bill is ready and he will introduce new legislation to tackle malpractices in educational institutions

•Shekhar Gupta: Hello and welcome to Walk the talk. I am Shekhar Gupta at Delhi's St Stephen's college. My guest this week is one of its more famous alumni but more importantly the man with a job in this cabinet with the greatest opportunity and perhaps the greatest challenge. Kapil Sibal welcome to Walk the talk.

Kapil Sibal: Thank you Shekhar.

•Shekhar Gupta: Is that characterization something you agree with?

Kapil Sibal: I entirely agree. I think it's a big challenge, a moment of great opportunity and I think if we fail now, I think we will have failed generations to come.

•Shekhar Gupta: because you know on the issue of education reforms this country has not hit a sweet spot because if you read Nandan Nilekani and idea takes a long time getting accepted in India.

Kapil Sibal: That's right.

•Shekhar Gupta: But once it doe get accepted you can't loose that moment.

Kapil Sibal: Absolutely and if you loose it now, I'll tell you this is a historic moment. The country wants change. Change is required because of the enormous challenges we face. By 2020 we are going to have something like 60 million young people who should be graduates. What's going to happen to them? I wonder and I worry.

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