After asking the government to check “subversive” elements indulging in “anti-national” activities in universities like JNU, the RSS Saturday called for value-based and nationalistic education in an a
After asking the government to check “subversive” elements indulging in “anti-national” activities in universities like JNU, the RSS Saturday called for value-based and nationalistic education in an atmosphere of equal opportunity. Asserting that the private sector was becoming aggressive in the education field, the RSS also pitched for a stronger regulatory body, possibly decentralised to ensure quality education for all.
The RSS in the annual meeting of its highest decision-making body, the Akhil Bhartiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS), passed two resolutions on education and medical and healthcare, while calling upon the state governments to make efforts to make these two sectors accessible to all the people in the country.
A resolution said the ABPS is of the opinion that every child should get “value-based, nationalistic, employment-oriented and skill-based education in an atmosphere of equal opportunity”.
On Friday, the RSS asked the Central and state governments to “deal strictly with anti-national and anti-social forces and ensure the sanctity and cultural atmosphere by not allowing our educational institutions to become centres of political activities”.
“Privatisation and commercialisation of education has created difficulties for the common man to get their wards quality education. Quality education should be available to all at an affordable price,” said Anirudh Deshpande, Akhil Bhartiya Sampark Prakukh of the RSS at the press briefing on the second day of the three-day ABPS meet.
He said a strong regulatory body was needed in the country to take care of it and to “control the private institutions”.
“Though we have a regulatory body, but we need to strengthen it and if required, it should be decentralised.”
Mr Deshpande claimed with the course of time, governments are also withdrawing from the sector of education and budget allocation is also reducing. “Governments are withdrawing and the private sector is becoming aggressive which has made the situation problematic for the student. The government should increase budget allocation for education,” he said.
