How Govt Policy Is Impairing Public Education
Narendra Thakur and C. Saratchand | 28 January 2025 | Newsclick
Since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) started leading the Union government in 2014, the trends toward privatisation, commercialisation, marginalisation and saffronisation have intensified. The themes that this article examines include public funding for education, pensions of teachers and employees, increasing role of private higher education and social exclusion in education of teachers and students.
The empirical findings cited rely on the Union Budget documents pertaining to the years 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25 and the All-India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) for 2013-14 and 2021-22. The school education data is examined using Budget data as well as reports of the District Information System for Education. The source of budget data on pensions is the Ministry of Finance for the two periods of 2005-2006 to 2007-2008 and 2019-20 to 2021-22, to examine a declining budget for pensions by the Central government….