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Book of Integration Council New - Ministry of Home Affairs

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We shall in this context support whatever measures the Union government<br />

takes to implement in earnest the right to education; but we are deeply<br />

dismayed by the unilateral curtailment that has been decreed by it with<br />

regard to the central share in Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, ignoring the pleas <strong>of</strong><br />

almost all the<br />

Chief Ministers at the NDC meeting.<br />

The central government is giving much emphasis to higher education in the<br />

eleventh plan. While this is welcome, it must make sure that the policy <strong>of</strong><br />

reservations is duly implemented in all the new institutions that are planned to be<br />

set up. And the nature <strong>of</strong> education in these institutions must be such that it<br />

imparts democratic, egalitarian, anti-patriarchal and secular values to all the student.<br />

These supposedly "world-class" institutions cannot be cradles for communal,<br />

casteist and patriarchal prejudices.<br />

The challenges to our survival as a modern democratic nation are at present<br />

severe. Steps have to be taken in a whole range <strong>of</strong> spheres to stave <strong>of</strong>f this<br />

challenge.<br />

Thank you for your attention.<br />

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