I was enjoying Raaz:Reboot and thought why not to jot down something which can reveal and unfold the tragic mystery of our current education landscape and the manifesto in Indian hustle goes like this..the lemon grass of the Beverly hills seems to be lustrous in Nat Geo but only the camel knows the trouble riding on the crossover roads.
Off late, the “ Watermelon Theory ” regarding education reforms given by Mr. Manohar Parrikar took everybody’s attention. Mr. Parrikar who is well known for his realistic humors probably wants to convey the message that-like watermelons, Indian education is illuminating a green radiance of eternity from outside but the insider story and other scenarios are something different and too pathetic to be penned down.
So it’s striking time we need to have a concrete revolutionary agenda or some serious reforms to be taken as far as Indian education quality is concerned.
Watermelon Theory and Indian Education System
According to a report, no Indian universities are found in the prestigious top 100 list of global rankings, hence the talent pool is flying overseas mostly to the USA and BRICS countries where merit is utmost priority over reservation system. India has got a very senseless education ecosystem which needs to revamped first. It should be the edge of tomorrow.
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Pt. Nehru was almost an Indian by blood and British in taste. He put more emphasis on developing the higher education. But after him, the movement got paralysed due to lack of R&D. As far as global recognition & branding tricks are concerned, Aryabhatta could compete with Einstein because of many lacunas in the system. Learning through experience has become the only left over resort for many because there is a dearth of good faculty members in India.
The US multinationals have also hired many Indian brains through different bilateral exchange programmes. The positioning of RTE as a game-changer is also not so remarkable. The number of IIT and /or CAT aspirants has drastically gone down in recent years and as a result people of India are also preferring Thailand and Germany as next best platforms for higher education after EU destinations. IISc is not also among top favorites in spite of its world class higher education ranking. All these reports show India needs to create some market oriented education strategies.
For the first time, the MHRD has taken an initiative to bring the general public into mainstream through online consultation. By this, the Indian citizens are now stakeholders of this education movement. Before suggesting anything, let’s analyse what’s there in the diplomatic pouch of PM Narendra Modi for Indian education and skilling upliftment. Has he focused on sensitive areas? Has he done something beyond political to resolve the issues like access and quality gaps? Will his proposals create a definite momentum?
Few excerpts from the Union Budget 2016 by the Hon’ble Finance Minister, Mr. Arun Jaitley are enunciated below:
“He has proposed the new Navodaya Vidyalayas & HEFA (Higher Education Financing Agency) to enhance the quality of K-12 and professional education. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan continues to the only resort for elementary education. To make the universities a world class platform, he advocated in favour of best in class teaching and research with a regulated architecture. Brilliant steps like CSR initiatives, National Board for Skill Development, entrepreneurship support & training through online courses, digital format of academic certificates, standardization of elementary education, Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao are some of his game-changers.”
But India needs implementation, not promises. All key announcements are yet to travel the turbulent & hardest miles. We need to focus more on job creations. If somebody gives us lemons, people generally have two choices- either we prepare a sweet and salty lime juice or we change all these on our walls. We need to adopt few innovative practices through persistent perfections to excel in the field of academia.
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I think at least in education system the reservation should be delinked. It should be merit based. Education has now become a methodology to get good scores. The parents too put tremendous pressures on young minds to score well. It has become a prestige issue for many. Knowledge is given half importance. The Curriculum is quite obsolete in many places. We need to have a micro planning to eliminate these grass root problems so that people give due importance to excellence. Other aspects which need immediate actions are batch size, theoretical aspects of studies, grading system, capitalists or businessmen setting up education projects, pseudo-mentality, practical &technology-orientation, smart classes, etc. |
90 per cent projected development models in India are just fake models and media highlighted ones – a well-timed strategy for vote banks of different political icons. All these bla bla advertisements seem like bigger lobotomised watermelons of Manohar Parrikar getting smaller day by day. The biggest problem in India is –as far as infrastructure, telecommunication and education paraphernalia are concerned, India has no great project managers. Had it been a false statement, the flyover bridge at Kolkata wouldn’t have collapsed in the past, Singur wouldn’t have been a nightmare, Commonwealth games wouldn’t have been in vains-the list is too bigger, we can’t write all within a stipulated period of time.The road conditions are too bad.
Many schemes to housing, transport, education are announced but after initial enthusiasm, work is never in progress. At least Indian govt. should take necessary steps to promote the courses like certified project management because 1 out of 5 sitting on the top as a project manager is a psychopath –a report revealed the fact in the tabloid. They need to understand there is a fine line of difference between leadership qualities and tendencies. They need to do a soul searching whether they are actually good project heads or are just senseless blood suckers who neither have any private lives nor empathy and human senses. This saddist mentality needs to be removed first from these so called education managers. But who will bell the wild cat?
We need some serious reforms in our education system, all these million dollar questions, the Indian voters are surely going to ask to our Narendra bhai before next elections. NaMo should be physically prepared not digitally. Light years ahead? There will be a reality check like Big Boss series in Colors and citizen to play Big Boss 2019. Eviction or title for Modi-time is the only decider.
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