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The Akhil Bharatiya Samajwadi Adhyapak Sabha, a socialist advocacy group, has demanded setting up an autonomous commission to govern the education sector and creation of separate cadre for top bureaucrats working in government-run educational establishments.
The local unit of the group recently met governor C Vidyasagar Rao and submitted a memorandum of their demands, which also includes ensuring free and compulsory education from kindergarten (KG) to post graduation (PG), among others.
"Setting up an autonomous institution for the education sector on the lines of the Central Planning Commission (NITI Aayog) would ensure more focused and organised approach of the government towards the sector. Such an institution would help in achieving the desired quality of education and ensure the government reaches all the targeted beneficiaries," national vice-president of the group Ajmal Khan said.
Elaborating on the demand to create a separate cadre of government officials for the education sector, he said, "Presently, the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers work in top-level posts in the bureaucracy in education departments. We demand that a separate cadre, Indian Educational Services (IES), must be created. The job responsibilities in the education sector are quite different from those in other fields."
The Akhil Bharatiya Samajwadi Adhyapak Sabha has also demanded scrapping of non-aided policy of the government in the education sector, terming it as the root cause of all the evils in the current system.
"The government should spend at least 8% of the GDP on education to ensure free flow of funds so that the non-aided policy can be rooted out permanently. To make sure the disadvantaged groups get more education, the government should increase the scope of the RTE Act, expanding the age limit of beneficiaries under it between three and 18 years," Khan added.
Bringing nursery education under the direct control of the government and levying a special education cess on the rich are some of the other major demands of the group. Its members are also planning to meet chief minister Devendra Fadnavis to discuss the group's demands.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/aurangabad/Set-up-special-commission-for-education/articleshow/46661767.cms
The local unit of the group recently met governor C Vidyasagar Rao and submitted a memorandum of their demands, which also includes ensuring free and compulsory education from kindergarten (KG) to post graduation (PG), among others.
"Setting up an autonomous institution for the education sector on the lines of the Central Planning Commission (NITI Aayog) would ensure more focused and organised approach of the government towards the sector. Such an institution would help in achieving the desired quality of education and ensure the government reaches all the targeted beneficiaries," national vice-president of the group Ajmal Khan said.
Elaborating on the demand to create a separate cadre of government officials for the education sector, he said, "Presently, the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers work in top-level posts in the bureaucracy in education departments. We demand that a separate cadre, Indian Educational Services (IES), must be created. The job responsibilities in the education sector are quite different from those in other fields."
The Akhil Bharatiya Samajwadi Adhyapak Sabha has also demanded scrapping of non-aided policy of the government in the education sector, terming it as the root cause of all the evils in the current system.
"The government should spend at least 8% of the GDP on education to ensure free flow of funds so that the non-aided policy can be rooted out permanently. To make sure the disadvantaged groups get more education, the government should increase the scope of the RTE Act, expanding the age limit of beneficiaries under it between three and 18 years," Khan added.
Bringing nursery education under the direct control of the government and levying a special education cess on the rich are some of the other major demands of the group. Its members are also planning to meet chief minister Devendra Fadnavis to discuss the group's demands.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/aurangabad/Set-up-special-commission-for-education/articleshow/46661767.cms
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