TSI takes a sneak peek at union human resources development minister kapil sibal's attempts to shake up, restructure and reform the rotten education system of the country and lauds the attempt to correct whatever went wrong during the Arjun Singh era
“I want to walk ahead and give people a chance to correct themselves and where people are not willing to correct themselves or create problems then we will take action. At this point in time, I have not done anything that would ruffle any feathers.” That was Union Minister of Human Resources Development (HRD) in an exclusive interview with The Sunday Indian, a short while after he assumed office. Even during that interview, Kapil Sibal had no doubt that his vision and plan to shake up, restructure and reform the rotten and dysfunctional education system would ruffle many feathers.
He has now gone way beyond ruffling feathers; he has shown the red flag to vested interests who made merry like there is no tomorrow during the tenure of his predecessor Arjun Singh. By the time UPA-1 was coming to an end, Arjun Singh had become famous (or notorious) as the ‘deemed’ university man. The later part of his tenure saw ‘deemed university’ status being doled out indiscriminately to all and sundry. It was an open secret even then the manner in which the status was doled out was mysterious and suspicious, to say the least. Now, Kapil Sibal has initiated steps that confirm the worst fears; most of those ‘deemed’ universities had no business to be called universities in the first place. As front paged by most papers, Sibal’s ministry has forwarded a report to the Supreme Court which says that 44 of the deemed universities must lose their status. This raises serious doubts over the functioning of the so called regulatory body Universities Grants Commission.
The rot in another higher education regulatory body was-in fact-exposed by Sibal soon after he took charge in 2009. As written in an exclusive cover story in The Sunday Indian, the promoter of an institute near Delhi was so harassed by officials at AICTE that he even approached Rahul Gandhi in desperation. It was Sibal who gave a green light for a quiet CBI investigation that led to the arrests of many top AICTE officials.
“I want to walk ahead and give people a chance to correct themselves and where people are not willing to correct themselves or create problems then we will take action. At this point in time, I have not done anything that would ruffle any feathers.” That was Union Minister of Human Resources Development (HRD) in an exclusive interview with The Sunday Indian, a short while after he assumed office. Even during that interview, Kapil Sibal had no doubt that his vision and plan to shake up, restructure and reform the rotten and dysfunctional education system would ruffle many feathers.
He has now gone way beyond ruffling feathers; he has shown the red flag to vested interests who made merry like there is no tomorrow during the tenure of his predecessor Arjun Singh. By the time UPA-1 was coming to an end, Arjun Singh had become famous (or notorious) as the ‘deemed’ university man. The later part of his tenure saw ‘deemed university’ status being doled out indiscriminately to all and sundry. It was an open secret even then the manner in which the status was doled out was mysterious and suspicious, to say the least. Now, Kapil Sibal has initiated steps that confirm the worst fears; most of those ‘deemed’ universities had no business to be called universities in the first place. As front paged by most papers, Sibal’s ministry has forwarded a report to the Supreme Court which says that 44 of the deemed universities must lose their status. This raises serious doubts over the functioning of the so called regulatory body Universities Grants Commission.
The rot in another higher education regulatory body was-in fact-exposed by Sibal soon after he took charge in 2009. As written in an exclusive cover story in The Sunday Indian, the promoter of an institute near Delhi was so harassed by officials at AICTE that he even approached Rahul Gandhi in desperation. It was Sibal who gave a green light for a quiet CBI investigation that led to the arrests of many top AICTE officials.
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