A member of the Akhil Bhartiya Shiksha Adhikar Manch and a known reformer in the field of education, Dr Anil Sadgopalan, is fighting towards removing or reforming the Right to Education Act.
A member of the Akhil Bhartiya Shiksha Adhikar Manch and a known reformer in the field of education, Dr Anil Sadgopalan, is fighting towards removing or reforming the Right to Education (RTE) Act.
He insists that India's education system should be based on the philosophy of Phule-Gandhi-Ambedkar and education should be free and equal for all.
"The RTE Act should be withdrawn immediately and it should be replaced with a new Act which is founded on the principle of equality and equitable quality of education, and which can be delivered only through a common school system, wherein every school will be a genuine neighbourhood school and government school system will give full space for expressing India's diversity," Dr Sadgopalan said while giving his views on the RTE Act.
The Bhopal based Dr Sadgopalan is currently in the city giving lectures from February 28 till March 6 on Nai Talim, under which he is touching upon various topics such as the education system of Phule-Gandhi-Ambedkar, effect of corporatisation on current education system of India, political economy of education and more.
Dr Sadgopalan further said that, "At the rate which corporatisation is taking place in India's education system, the day is not far when education will become too expensive for the common man. Currently, the government itself is worsening the situation of government schools and education institutions to the extent that they themselves end up selling education land to corporates and allowing them to build expensive education systems. By 2015, education will turn into a business worth Rs2.5 lakh crore."
Dr Sadgopalan puts forth his seven-point agenda to reform the education system, which was actually written in our constitution, as told by him.
He continues his fight against corporatisation of people oriented and high quality education and is currently working on research on the educational philosophy of Phule-Gandhi-Ambedkar for a possible reconstruction of India's educational system for the future.
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