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Anubhuti Vishnoi Tags : theideaexchange, column Posted: Sunday , Oct 25, 2009 at 0321 hrs

Minister of Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal

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Minister of Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal is one of the most active ministers of UPA-II. In this Idea Exchange moderated by Special Correspondent Anubhuti Vishnoi, Sibal discusses his roadmap for education

ANUBHUTI VISHNOI: The election results are out in Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh. It’s been good for the Congress.

Kapil Sibal: With UPA coming back to power with no perceptive stumbling block, people now believe it is time to deliver. And the results in these three states will cement the expectations. The advantage at this point, I think, is that the Opposition is at its weakest. But there are great expectations from the Congress. If it really performs well in the course of UPA-II, it will emerge even stronger. If the Congress does not deliver, there is likely to be some kind of confusion in the way politics is going to move forward.

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ANUBHUTI VISHNOI: What are the areas in which the government must deliver?

Roads and energy. But the education sector, I think, is the biggest challenge. Unless you have a mass of people going to college, you are not going to get higher education moving, you are not going to get your wealth generation in terms of intellectual property moving. And if you don’t have that mass in school and college, no matter what you do on the physical infrastructure front or the energy front, you are never going to move forward as a nation. How do we deal with that? We need to open up the education sector to foreign institutes and to the private sector. The most crucial sector here is vocational training. We have no drivers, no cooks, we have no paralegals, no paramedics. And the government has no policy yet on how to open up this sector. There needs to be a policy in place on how to have industry work with the education sector. In schools, we have these stratified courses of commerce, science and humanities. This stratification should go.

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A waft of fresh air-IIBy: V.S.Malhotra | 26-Oct-2009 Reply | Forward Today a little over half a century later our own 'Friedman' in the person of Mr. Sibal is giving the same call. Let us hope that we will not miss the bus this time. All the best to Mr. Kapil Sibal. Hope he succeeds in his mission and becomes an avante gardre of a movement of enlightenment which seems to be taking shape in the contry at this time.

A waft of fresh airBy: V.S.Malhotra | 26-Oct-2009 Reply | Forward There is a waft of fresh air in Mr. Sibal admitting forthrightly that with the comfortable position in which UPA and of the congress party are now placed, the people are now beginning to believe that the time has come for the government to deliver--a clear enough acceptance of the government's duty to the electorate. And what is more, there is a still greater effervescence to hear Mr. Sibal say that the biggest challenge is the education sector, particularly the school and college section. Admittedly school education has not recieved the attention it should have recieved. In 1955 the government of India had invited a Chicago economist for consultation in connection with the preparatio of the second five year plan. He had then suggested that greater stress should be laid on the inprovement of human capital.But we did not pay any heed to this recommendation, as told by Ramachandra Guha in his book "India After Gandhi".We thus missed the bus at that time. (contd.)

Principal By: Dr. A. Vaz | 26-Oct-2009 Reply | Forward In Idea Exchange I think Minister Kapil Sibal has made some valid points.With so many teacher education institutions mushrooming all over the country, each new one being sponsored by a political bigwig, the quality of teachers is hardly considered. I hope Mr. Sibal can free us from the government ties and promote private entreprenneurship not only backed by industry but by committed intellectuals who wish to take this country ahead. Can we be more creative and construct knowledge and experiences throuh research

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