India's New Education Policy - an Elephant with Two Types of Teeth

摘要

India's education policy under the right wing government, presently in power in India, is replete with contradictions between hypocritical claims and ground realities. The claims are all politically correct, but the practice is contradictory to the declared claims so made. The new education policy is conservative in most respects. The emphasis is on traditions, past and conservative value system. Despite the phrases like equity, democracy and the rant against commercialization, in practice we witness subversion of all that is politically correct.