Education is a basic right, but almost 60 per cent of higher education in India is privatised, and unaffordable for most. For democracy to be meaningful, education must be free for all so even the poorest can access it on equal terms, with special provisions such as reservation for marginalised sections. The bulk of government revenue comes from indirect taxes on what people buy—it’s their money and education is a tool for the poor among them to break out of poverty. The government, however, has been abdicating its responsibility of funding higher education. We are in the middle of a long battle against the designs of the government that has been steering public universities and colleges towards a self-financed model—an agenda being pushed across the world, and which, at least in many European countries, has been stalled to an extent by student protests.
The revised National Education Policy (NEP), unveiled last month, says the government won’a legislate or regulate anything related to higher education such as courses,...
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