The government must remove the qualitative, procedural and quantitative barriers to capacity expansion by abolishing the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), allowing for-profit schools, removing the 25% private school reservation in the Right to Education Bill, including school policy in urban planning and forming an outcome-focused regulatory body.
Yes, these Nazi’s must go. I second the motion.
But there was another column in Mint, whose title struck a negative note: “Op-eds don’t bring change.” The author advises us columnists to advise the government in a secret, shadowy manner. He says:
“… credit for success should be dedicated entirely to the political or bureaucratic masters. Intellectuals should be prepared to work behind the scenes with politicians or bureaucrats, rather than get in the front.”
I would never do such a thing. The biggest weapon of the columnist is his openness to the public. There is nothing secretive or shadowy about his “politics” – unlike the politicians, bureaucrats and other back-room boys of policy-making. His is “politics as the public actions of free people.” Such people are exactly what the back-room types fear and dread.
This columnist is also not very comfortable with the State-Market dichotomy. He says:
“…reforms couched in terms of State versus Market are doomed to fail, especially in these times. Reforms have to be framed in terms of State versus people…”
Actually, The Market is “people.”
And The State are hominids who pretend to be people: Nazis.
It’s a Predatory State, buster.
Get that straight – and the rest, as they say, will follow.
Your openness is your weapon but secrecy is the babu's weapon even though there is an RTI act :-)
ReplyDeleteWith their inflated egos both politicians and bureaucrats don't accept anything (may be except praise) you give them openly.
BTW: In an earlier post you commented that India voted for secularism. I don't agree with you. Indians never had time to bother about such ideals.. most are busy earning next meal.