IT News
Imphal, July 31:
All India Federation of University & College Teachers’ Organisation (AIFUCTO) strongly opposed the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, saying that the new reform education policy will privatize the entire education sector.
When the entire country is struggling to save the lives of the mankind and economic backbone of the country is in serious bad shape, Central Government considered it as a opportunities to implement its ideology on the entire nation.
“Keeping with their unbridled spree for privatization of key public sectors, the present NEP will private the entire system, providing a death knell to AIFUCTO struggle for a democratic, secular, scientific and inclusive education”, the AIFUCTO statement signed by Its General Secretary Prof. (Dr) Arun Kumar.
The statement further added that Market, Corporate and fundamentalist forces will take advantage of the situation and demolish the constitutional foundation of our Education system. Democratic right of the Teachers and the autonomy of the institution will collapse like a house of cards. The emphasis on online system of teaching and examination will open the system to commercialization and deprive vast majority of the students from the benefits of knowledge revolution of 21st century. The communal over tone of the policy will rob from the students mind the scientific temper and make them victim of emotional frenzy.
The statement also stated that the National Education Policy(NEP) is not the reflection of collective consensus of the nation nor it exhibits the democratic views of all stakeholders including AIFUCTO. The claim of the Government that before finalizing the policy wide range consultation has been made is merely eyewash and pretensions. Only persons with ideological affinity with them have been consulted. Reason best known to the Government, they didn’t have the patience for approval in the parliament.
“The structurally changes made in the policy is mere cosmetic and nothing to with quality education. The phasing out of the affiliating system, provision for multi disciplinary institution and design to change curriculum will have a disastrous impact on the fate of the Teachers and our pluralistic cultural diversity. There is no concrete road map for resource mobilization. That means entire NEP is meant to consolidate the forces of centralization, communalization, corporatization, and commercialization”, it added.
