July, 2020 -

AIDSO Vehemently Criticises the National Education Policy – 2020

All India Democratic Students’ Organisation (AIDSO) vehemently criticises the National Education Policy (NEP) that has been approved by the union cabinet yesterday as a design meant for the all-out Privatisation, Commercialisation, Centralisation, Vocationalisation and Communalisation of education. Sourav Ghosh, the General Secretary of AIDSO in a press statement has said, “The central government trampled down all the desired democratic norms, ignored the role of the states in formulating education policies, disregarded the opinions of the educationists, students’ & teachers’ organisations and also used the dreaded pandemic situation to implement its…

“India is a country of diversities. It is indispensable for the student community to know and understand the diversities in order to grow as conscious, critical, democratic and socially responsible citizens of the country. This responsibility apparently lies on the education system. But the CBSE, in the shield of the situation arisen out of corona outbreak and subsequent lockdown, removed 30% of the curriculum from 9th to 12th grade as per the direction of the central government. Many former officials of CBSE and NCERT have expressed their serious objection on…