Really who runs the educational sector in our country now
No one can dispute the present widespread feeling that education is a business now. In the olden days especially during the rule of benevolent Kings and Queens, education was seen as an essential welfare measure immediately after food, shelter, and clothing. In ancient Bharat, there were reputed Universities. The rulers took great interest and focus in funding and encouraging educational institutions and aimed at excellence in education knowledge and scholarship. Even just a few decades ago public education was given priority. One recent action almost in that spirit was the Right To Education Act.However, in the current situation, public and free education and such educational institutions are shrinking. Most governments have started looking away from the educational sector as an essential welfare service, but have now turned them into a resource for public money and private gratifications.
That is why we can now see that many educational institutions are run by businessmen, politicians, Corporates, and even religious organizations. Some of them just put a facade of service, but in the name of fees and various expenses collect hefty amounts. Parents –some willingly and some grudgingly- shell out such huge sums. It is because the education sector has become a surefire successful business that we see many new educational institutions launched frequently under various captivating names.
On the actual ground, there are other monopolies and power centers like politically based student unions, trade unions of teaching staff and non-teaching staff
For brevity, I can sum up that in reality, the education sector is dominated and run by students unions, teachers and other staff unions, business houses, businessmen, politicians, and religious organizations –for power and dominance, and the amount of money coming from the education business directly and indirectly.
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