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The glaring gap between the constitution’s precepts and the practice of the bourgeois rulers is a scathing indictment of the bourgeois-landlord system instituted after independence.” (Para 2.37)

Nature of policy making in changing times

The world underwent a tectonic shift with the collapse of Soviet Union and the disappearance of the bipolarity.

For NEP 2020, bulldozing the states and the underlined denial of recognition of our rich diversity is the approach for ensuring ‘national integration’.

Apart from centre-state issues, NEP also takes away the role of democratic participation and engagement of the academic community, the students and the society at large to address the unevenness in our development process.

Therefore, the inescapable conclusion is essentially this is a vision statement.

This is the third version which has been cleared by the cabinet.

From the 68 page NEP, 2020 on the government’s website, it is apparent that though education, which figures in the concurrent list of the Constitution, the document does not reflect numerous serious disagreements of state governments, academic bodies and important academics, organisations of the teaching community and student bodies.

Taking advantage of severe restrictions on public protest in the pandemic affected environment, in its familiar aggressive pursuit of anti-democratic and anti-federal agenda, Modi government is aiming to unabashedly promote corporate intrusion through NEP 2020.

With the NEP document itself setting out a timeline which will go beyond 2030, the tearing hurry in finalising it without a public debate and more importantly, a discussion in the Parliament, clearly establishes a unilateral authoritarian drive to preempt possible opposition.

During the consultation over the NEP, RSS emerged as the most influential voice.

Its intensity varies from state to state. On the question of democracy, what has stood out in 2025 is the situation facing the constitutional right to vote. The process of globalisation and the associated overwhelming domination of international finance capital did not allow nations and national priorities to remain insulated. (History is taught as though it was not a branch of science at all.

In fact, the battle for ensuring access to education was aimed against exclusive control of the elite through British colonial policy of limiting mass education. The process of education under the class society, therefore, embraces the process of generating and nurturing a consciousness in the interest of the ruling class.

As Marx and Engels observe: “The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch, the ruling ideas: i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

Chaos is the profit multiplier for the disaster capitalism on which the new billionaires thrive. The subsequent developments have only confirmed this course of development. It wanted people who could simultaneously run a competent, secure state and protect profits from democratic change. The note’s specific emphasis on placating the caste inequality is eloquent.

The other more vital question is the degeneration of the Election Commission of India into a pocket borough of the BJP. There is a heartening fight back by the people on the question of SIR. But latest facts show that the ECI did not even follow its own procedural requirements to decide on this bizarre campaign. With the RSS in its place and facilitation of identity politics, the real challenge for the ultra-right was the democratic secular Constitution bearing the legacy of the anti-colonial freedom struggle.

Education has seen a reduction in outlays over the period of neo-liberal reforms. Naturally his sale pitch hinges on the rhetorical argument that NEP 2020 will ensure ‘job creators’ instead of ‘job seekers’.

Perhaps his speech is prompted by the proposed fragmentation of both the school and the higher education process with several exit points and variable degrees and certificates.

The brazen endorsement of ICHR’s note on history without any substantive academic/scientific basis clearly brings out the political/ideological nature of this initiative. 

In the constitution, state governments are state governments; in no way the governors can subsume the powers of the elected state governments.

Apart from overlooking concrete evidence of traditions that challenge the authority of the Vedas and Brahminical scheme, the Hindutva ideologues in the ICHR are hell bent to whitewash these dissenting alternative traditions. The attack is twofold. This is what is captured by the Chilean transformational education theorist Paulo Freire.

Education: major theatre in the battle of ideas

Education understood as mere instruction existed in the most primitive forms of social organisation.

The issue is that of the TMC working with the communal elements in that community. This is the essence of education.