Sharing with you a five-month old NDTV debate, which seems relevant today, given the misadventures of our Minister of Human Resource Development. Requesting all to watch the debate video and share your suggestions & viewpoint. --------------------- Press Release, Nov 23 The BJP central government must give up its immature and amateur interference in school education since such mid-year tampering will cause immense harm to the students. The irresponsible utterances of the union human resources development minister make it clear that the BJP government lacks the necessary competence and seriousness required to initiate fresh education reforms. The central government must allay the fears of students and their parents immediately on the issue of imposition of an extra language when merely three months are left for the final examination and also whether class X exams will be made mandatory for the CBSE students. The Aam Aadmi Party is of the categorical view that no proposal can be implemented once an academic session has begun and the decision of the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan board of directors to replace German with Sanskrit for students of classes VI-VIII at this final juncture is nothing short of playing with the careers of nearly 70,000 students. It is extremely unfortunate that the HRD minister is trying to give a German Vs Sanskrit narrow twist to the wider issue of three language formula under the National Curriculum Framework. A balance needs to be struck between classical Indian languages and the growing aspiration among students to learn foreign languages. The decision to impose any particular language and discontinue other languages is a retrograde move, which needs to be discouraged. The HRD minister Ms Smriti Irani has displayed a complete ignorance of facts by stating that teaching German in schools is unconstitutional. Either she has not been briefed properly by her ministry officials or she is deliberately misleading the country by her misinterpretation of the Constitution. The government has a complete team of senior law officers whose services can be utilized by the HRD minister to get a proper understanding of the Constitution and interpretation of the relevant schedules dealing with languages taught in India. The BJP government is playing a dangerous game with school education by trying to impose and rush through ill-thought reforms without consulting experts in the field of education. Such a move could spell disaster for the country. Aam Aadmi Party demands that the central government must immediately stop its knee jerk announcements on school education and should start consultations to build a national consensus on fresh reforms in education. (ENDS) Regards. Aam Aadmi Party Media Cell
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 05:24:13 +0000
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