Education must create minds free from superstitions, hatred and violence and become an important vehicle to cement national unity, social cohesion and religious amity. Our endeavour should be to inculcate moral, ethical and humanistic values in the individuals and the society.” These words are from the BJP’s elections manifesto for the 2014 parliamentary election. Now, four years down the line, it seems that either these words have a different meaning in the BJP’s dictionary or these too were ‘jumlas’ like everything else. The last four years have seen authoritarian assaults on our educational institutions -- HCU, JNU, FTII, IIT-Madras and BHU -- aimed at crushing the democratic culture and destroying every single voice of dissent. However, the assault on democracy is only one part when one begins to look for the “achievements” of the four years of the NDA government in the education sector.
The BJP-led central governmenthas aggressively pursued the policies of commercialisation, centralisation and communalisation of education. It is accelerating the neo-liberal educational policies of the previous UPA government, aimed at deregulating the education sector and increasing the avenues of profit maximisation for the private capital. However, at the same time it is destroying the federal character of Indian education and is attempting to control the entire sector from the Centre, as part of the designs to push the Hindutva agenda. This is reflected in appointing RSS personnel in key administrative bodies, rewriting of history, abrupt and irrational changes in syllabi, propagation of pseudoscience, so on and so forth. The brunt of these attacks is falling upon the students from the socio-economically exploited and oppressed section.
New National Education Policy
The Modi government had announced adoption of a new National Education Policy within 100 days of it taking oath. The hype created around it led people to believe that the new policy document will be instrumental in addressing the problems of the education system and will help rejuvenating it. Where do we find ourselves after four years? While the adoption of the new policy is nowhere in sight, the various draft documents that have come clearly portray the agenda behind the new policy document -- the agenda of privatisation, commercialisation and communalisation. The proposed NEP is in clear contradiction with the constitutional vision of a common education system.There is already a sanction to private education institution for open loot of students through different kind of fees. The student community has been demanding for longa central legislation to monitor the admission process and fee structure of private institutions.However, there is no mention of such a provision in the draft NEP.
2 . Selling of PSUs
After it sells the government’s stake in profit-making public sector companies such as Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) and Container Corporation of India (CONCOR) etc as already announced, the Modi regime is planning to sell its stake in another 46 public sector companies, National Herald has learnt.
Out of these 46, the formal decision on selling the government’s stake in six PSUs is expected soon. There are more than 270 public sector undertakings in India.
3. Slowdown in Automation Sector
Auto parts makers in India have been hit hard by automobile companies cutting production to trim inventory amid weak demand.
The vendors are being forced to follow the path of the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) by either temporarily shutting plants or adjusting output by reducing the number of daily shifts in their factories.
Automakers Such as such as Maruti Suzuki Ltd, Tata Motors Ltd, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd (M&M), Ashok Leyland Ltd and Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India Ltd have temporarily closed plants in the past few months. Initial reports for July suggest that the passenger car sales have slipped by over 29% making it the worst month in the past 2 decades.
On 20 July, Bosch Ltd, one of the largest auto parts makers in India, said it has suspended operations at its Gangaikondan plant in Tamil Nadu for five days starting 23 July to ‘avoid unnecessary buildup of inventory’. Later, it suspended operations at its Naganathapura unit in Karnataka for two days (27 and 29 July) followed by single-day shutdowns at Jaipur (27 July) and Bidadi (29 July).
Bosch is not alone. Other key tier one vendors such as Exide Industries, Continental Automotive Components (India), ZF, Brose India Automotive Systems, Schaeffler India, Brembo Brakes India, Kalyani Maxion Wheels, Varroc Group, Eaton, IAC India have adjusted their respective production schedules to align their inventory as per the revised forecasts by the car companies.
A spokesperson at Exide said capacity is usually diverted to the aftermarket segment during low demand from automakers. “So, in the short run, this works to our advantage because aftermarket offers us better margin. However, if the demand slump continues for a very long time, then there is cause for concern," he stated.
4. Economic Slowdown and Decrease in GDP:
India’s economic slowdown, which has been disconcertingly long and steep, did not bottom out even in the December quarter (Q3FY20), with the rate of real GDP expansion in the quarter coming in at 4.7%, a 27-quarter low. Also, the growth is going to be even lower at 4.6% or thereabouts in the fourth quarter of the fiscal, as per the national income data (second advance estimate for FY20) released by the National Statistics Office (NSO) on Friday, amid uncertainties over the extent of damage that the still-unbridled coronavirus pandemic could inflict on the global economy and the resultant supply and demand disruptions to Indian economy.
The NSO revised the GDP expansion rate for Q2FY20 upwards to 5.1% from 4.5% estimated earlier. It, however, retained the FY20 GDP growth estimate at 5%, the same level as in the first advance estimate released in early January; such growth would be the worst since 2008-09.
The size of the FY20 nominal GDP is now estimated at Rs 203.85 lakh crore, down from the first advance estimate of Rs 204.42 lakh crore; upon the FY19 base (last revised on January 31), nominal GDP growth for the current fiscal is now pegged at 7.5% (a 42-year low), against 7.8% computed on the revised base previously.
Speaking to reporters,economic affairs secretary Atanu Chakraborty asserted that the slowdown has now bottomed out. However, private analysts were less sanguine.
5. The last One I think is Lack of hospitalsand conditions of which is totally disposed in Corona Pandemic
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