THEOPTIMISTICJOURNALIST

The task of the modern educator is not to cut-down jungles, but to irrigate deserts – C.S. Lewis

With every educator lies a sacred duty – the duty to build people wealthy of character, and not just of money. If the duty to build a nation with people of character is replaced with the opportunity to build wealth at the cost of character, it would build a jungle of palatial excesses amid deserts abundant of underprivileged neighbourhoods

• Anirudh Vaishya, The-Optimistic-Journalist

Of all the people who receive education, those of worth differ from a commoner not just in terms of degrees of influence butalso in terms of degrees of expertise. But a Commoner beats even the people of influence with his/her degrees of tolerance – tolerance to harassments by the people of influence.

The nation’s backbone ie The Middle Class works jobs, pays taxes, abides by the laws, and unfortunately suffers the most when shocks hit the economy.

Amidst all the problems that encircle the Indian Middle-Class lies another problem – the problem of Frequent School-Fee hikes by Urban India’s private schools. The frequent school-fee-hikes create problems in India that add up to the multiple hrassments that the middle-classed parents in India suffer with.

But the vision, and the mission with which The-Optimistic-Journalist writes is to help provide solutions to problems

I plan to propose to the government the following:- 1) The Union+State Governments must introduce their own bonds of two types:- (a) RURAL INDIA SCHOOL BONDS – HNIS to buy these bonds and these bonds be disbursed for renovation / repair of govt schools and WITH THE INCREAE IN VALUE OF BONDS the rural entrepreneurs get the returns on the sum invested by them in the form of the RISB bonds. As a result the Government schools in RURAL India may be mandated not to increase school fees for a fixed period of time. The Government-Aided Rural Affordable Private Schools may be allowed to increase tuition fees not beyond the percentage of inflation, provided they increase the teachers’ salary by a proportion of the same rates of percentages.

(b) URBAN INDIA SCHOOL BONDS – HNIs buy these bonds and these bonds be disbursed for renovations of govt schools and Government-Aided Affordable Private Schools in URBAN INDIA so that the School-fee hikes are capped for a fixed period of time and at the level of equal to or below the inflation rate, and the HNIS, too get a certain amount of Interest on their investment in URBAN INDIA SCHOOL BONDS.

BASED ON THE Benchmarks such as those of previously charged school fees, infrasctructure benchmarks, previous school rankings, LUXURY SCHOOLS BE Categorized separately and they must be kept out from THE SCHOOL BONDS REGIME – Which means they can be free to fix their School fees and hike them as per their convenience.

These bonds must be linked to:

Penalty clauses (loss of eligibility)

Binding fee-hike ceilings

Transparent audited accounts

I say all this because as per the nep 2020 curricular frameworks, the content of education would emerge from the NEP 2020 curricular framework and that would mean that the quality of education would remain the same in all schools whether rural india govt schools, rural india affordable private schools, or urban india govt schools and urban area affordable private schools. THIS IS MY PROPOSAL TO STATE GOVERNEMENTS AND THE UNION GOVERNMENT IN INDIA

“NEP 2020 ensures baseline uniformity in curriculum and outcomes, which justifies capping fee hikes once infrastructure is publicly financed.”

BY ANIRUDH VAISHYA, THE-OPTIMISTIC-JOURNALIST