Schools

Schools today are nothing less to any other commercial activity. In fact it is the most lucrative and almost a non-questionable vertical. Whether the economy is going down, people are losing jobs or taking pay cuts, their wards need to be educated and yeh lo, the school managements know it. So charge - pay it or leave!!!

Government seems to be hoodwinking the whole process - a standard nexus between the private managements and the bureaucracy. There seems to be no strong, valid reason for the irrational fees hikes in private (so called corporate public) schools. There is no sudden jump up in the quality of education, or teaching staff. And who cares really for the AC buses, classrooms and all unwanted crap. You talk to teachers, they say life did not change for them. Talk to non-teaching staff or the students, they say the same. Then why hike and what is the value add? To setup new branches, give higher life style to self and build individual wealth. But all this at what cost - stalling the intelligent students, pushing the primary cause to back-burner and creating weakness in the primary strength of this country - the education.

Make money - no issues. But education cannot be put on par with other commodities and industries like steel, cement or IT. It has a sanctity of its own and must be respected for being the platform for growth of all industries, economy and society. There must be regulated hikes supported by reason. Year on year hikes cannot be brought in the name of various categories of building fund, welfare fund, and what not.

Government must use a stronger hand to regulate the trend and establish that education is a non-negotiable weapon and every indian must have the power to study in good school with affordable fees structure. They must also counter the corporate schools with state of the art government schools by investing heavily into infrastructure, facilities, teachers and campaign. That is the only alternate to contain the crazy education system.