Stop commercialisation of education

Ataullah Faizan

Bhopal : April 18, 2011

  

Commercialisation of education is playing havoc with both education and student’s career. It is on boom in India these days and its starting was from the days of boom in IT Sector when many private companies opened their computer training centre giving diplomas and degrees in various town & cities of every state. Most of which failed and ran away with hard earned money of people. Similarly, the concept of Distance Education launched by the Union government is purely business model behind it because whenever a students miss any deadline he have to pay the fines but if university misses all deadlines no measures will be taken in that case. It is alleged that students never receive the study material on time. Private universities are making money but are not providing services to the students. Dispatch of syllabus, study material is not done. No deadlines are mentioned for the staff to provide books and other required things to students on time. Last year one student doing M.Com from a private university through Distance Programme and gone to collect study material at the study centre in December , he received only three books out of six subject and told that university had printed only 3 books and rest of the books are not printed and given by university. What the university is charging for, when they do not give study material to the students it means they are just selling degrees, it’s shameful that no body is there to take care of these things. No one is raising a voice against them..

It is in the light of above facts that the Madhya Pradesh government is ensuring that more and more private colleges and universities are opened but they should not take undue benefits by commercializing education.

Recently, Higher education, culture and public relations minister Laxmikant Sharma underlined the needs for private investment and public participation for the development of education but warned of commercialization of education. To stop commercialization of education is also a top priority of the State Government, he said. Sharma was addressing an annual function of Uttamchand Israni Sindhu higher secondary middle school at Sindhi colony in Bhopal

Shri Sharma said that efforts are being made to reach a required standard of education. Eight universities have been set up in this government.