History is a critical tool of nation-building. Given the growing public unrest over this issue, Giri’s initiative could eventually yield results. Sadly, the Supreme Court pandered to this flagrant violation and religious bias. This caused closure of lakhs of modest private schools across the country as they could not bear the financial burden.įurther, the UPA shamelessly gave minority institutions the luxury of not catering to EWS in their own communities, thus denying institutions run by Hindus the constitutional Right to Equality. However, on 21 July 2017, BJP MP, Maheish Giri, moved a private bill in the Lok Sabha to amend Article 15 (Clause 5), to modify the Right to Education Act. This clause, added by the Sonia Gandhi-led UPA regime in 2005, brought private (aided or unaided) schools within the ambit of the RTE and forced them to reserve 25 per cent seats for Economic Weaker Sections (EWS).
Successive education ministers have done little regarding two critical issues of public concern. He struggled with mega problems concerning the economy, of which demonetisation and the Goods and Services Tax (GST) are important pillars in controlling the parallel economy and raising government revenue. Prime Minister Narendra Modi personally focused on ambitious nationwide schemes for the marginalised (Jan Dhan Yojana, Swachh Bharat, housing for all, etc.) and firming up ties with the neighbourhood and bilateral relations with virtually all nations, a prescient move in a fast-changing world. Though much has been written over the years about distortions in textbooks written by Marxist-Secularist scholars who dominated academia for decades under Congress patronage (which governments in between could not shake), it was hoped that the Bharatiya Janata Party, with its own parliamentary majority, would urgently address the problem. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath questioned the rationale behind excluding certain revered figures from the school curriculum. – Sandhya JainĪs schools reopened in June, voices began to be raised about the quality of education being imparted to students in certain subjects, especially history. Majumdar, India’s invented and distorted history blossomed in the 1970s when Indira Gandhi needed Left support to stabilise her regime and surrendered the education sector to them and funded the plethora of institutions they created to bolster their hegemony across the spectrum. While early tinkering with the discipline began with Jawaharlal Nehru’s famous spat with R.
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