CPI (M) protests against Centralisation, Communalisation and Commercialisation of Education
Source: IT News

Imphal, August 02 2020: The Manipur State Secretariat of the CPI(M) has strongly denounced the New Education policy by the government of India .

A statement by Kshetrimayum Santa, Secretary, CPI (M) Manipur State Committee said that Education is in the Concurrent List in our Constitution.

It is a gross violation by the Central government to impose a New Education Policy unilaterally bypassing all the objections and opposition recorded by various state governments.

It added that a new policy of such a nature needs to be discussed in the Parliament.

This was assured by the government earlier.

The draft is, as per norm, placed on the table of the Houses with a statutory time limit within which Members of Parliament can move amendments/give opinions.

The Parliament has been completely bypassed.

"The draft of New Education Policy was put out in the public domain seeking suggestions and opinions from all stakeholders, mainly the academicia, the teaching community and the students.

In addition, many intellectuals had also sent in their observations.

None of these have been considered by the central government.

"This unilateral drive is to destroy the Indian education system with a policy that seeks greater centralization, communalization and commercialization of Indian education to please the saffron brigade", the CPI (M) Manipur said.

The statement said that the Manipur State Secretariat of the CPI(M) strongly protests against the move by the BJP led NDA Central government and demanded that a thorough discussion in Parliament be held and state level discussion be organised by the state government before implementation begins in the interest of the people and the nation in general and new generations in particular.

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