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Education for all |
The importance of education in a child's life cannot be exaggerated.
We hope that the day is not far away when every child in India
would be able to attend a school of her or his parent's choice,
irrespective of their ability to pay for it. We hope that poor
parents, like other parents, would be able to enjoy the immense
benefits derived from a school system based on parental choice
and competition among schools.
We believe the direction taken by "The Free and Compulsory
Education Bill 2003" is wrong and is sure to have dangerous
consequences if passed into law. This is unfortunate and
a wasted opportunity. A bill that promoted parental choice
and competition among schools would have achieved wonders.
Instead, this bill promotes drastic bureacratisation of our
educational system. Also, the bill proposes further governmental
take over of a large chunk of the private schools and will seriously
jeopardise the autonomy and well being of these schools.
The result would be corruption, politicisation and further erosion
of education in our country.
Our children and our society deserve better. We believe
a education voucher based system, coupled with elimination of
the license permit raj in the educational system, would ensure
quality affordable education for all our children, especially
the poor ones.
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Opinions
and Commentary
Legislative
Analysis
Policy
Review
Studies
On
the Radar
- "The
Cess In Cesspool"by Ila Patnaik, The Indian Express,
Aug 13, 2004
- "Looking
Beyond Mr Joshi"by Ila Patnaik, Business Standard,
March 17, 2004
- "Education
- The Next Great Business Opportunity" by Jamal
Macklai, Business Standard, Jan 16, 2004
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"Stop Bullying Children" by Gurcharan Das,
The Times of India, Jan 11, 2004
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"The Next Big Thing" by Sunil Jain, Business
Standard, Dec 29, 2003
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"Privatising Education"by Sujatha Muthayya,
The New Sunday Express , November 17, 2002
Books
and Monographs
Related
Events
Resources
More
Studies
- "Primary Schools
in Dharwad: "Amidst Paisa, Power & Politics"
by Tejaswini Y, CCS Working Paper No. 0069,
2003
- Why Central Exams
at All? by M Gopinath & Hari Krishna, CCS Working
Paper No. 0070, 2003
- Funding by University Grants
Commission by Shiva Mishra, CCS Working Paper No. 0071,
2003
- Education Vouchers:
Is there a model for India? by Eva Weidrich, CCS Working
Paper No. 0072, 2003
- Of Opening Colleges
and Obtaining Licences by Shailly Arora & Sruthijith
K K, CCS Working Paper No. 0019, 2002
- Licenses to Open
a School: It's All About Money by Mayank Wadhwa, CCS
Working Paper No. 0001, 2001
- Trash the Textbook
Bureau by Aditi Kavarana & H B Soumya, CCS Working
Paper No. 0005, 2001
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