New Education Policy 2021: Teachers of Jadavpur University and Calcutta University criticise NEP – education

New Education Policy 2021: Teachers of each Calcutta and Jadavpur universities criticised the brand new nationwide education coverage introduced on Wednesday.

“This coverage is an assault on the federal construction because it undermines the state’s position in education by the creation of HECI. This coverage additionally overtly encourages the privatization of larger education, opens up our education sector to overseas investments and will exclude economically marginal college students and college students from the distant areas. Segregation of the schools into Instructing and Analysis establishments goes towards the very concept of a college the place analysis and educating need to go hand in hand,” stated Prof. Sankhayan Choudhury, basic secretary, Calcutta University Teachers’ Affiliation.

“The brand new coverage seeks to interchange the inclusive, democratic and progressive concept of India by a slim, sectarian, and bigoted notion pushed by the compulsion to propagate the divisive ideology of a specific political celebration. It has set again education in India by not less than a century,” stated Partha Pratim Roy, president, Jadavpur University Teachers’ Affiliation.