The recent decision of the education department to impose a blanket ban on the practice of tuition by the government teachers has jolted people from all sections of our society.It has brought a gloom and fall on the anxious faces of those poor and under privileged students whose parents can’t afford sending their children to expensive tuition centres in and outside the state. The decision amounts to stabbing in the back of the poor section of the society. Looking at the decision carefully and what implications it could have in this war torn zone, only the negative repercussions emerge. The educational environment in the valley is not good at all. It also lacks competitiveness when compared with other states. Policies framed without any logic and reason have worsened it further as no government looks sincere about the upliftment of education. The state-run government schools have been rendered dysfunctional by the authorities as they san every facility for the smooth transaction of education. Instead of developing the infrastructure of the poor schools, crores are being spent in the name of model schools. These are the schools where some infrastructure and manpower is already available.
Pertinently, teachers are emotionally and psychologically perturbed for want of their salaries withheld for months together. To add salt to their injuries, the government on one day announces that it will conduct the screening test and other day withholds the decision.
The government lacks clarity in its policies. All it wants is to maintain a state of uncertainty in every sphere of life in this war ridden state where a major chunk of population is surviving on antidepressants.
The ban on tuition is the part of the same conspiracy where the elite class wants to limit the access to the education by the poor and the underprivileged.
These so-called elites know it well how to curtail the flight of the weaker section purposefully. They conducted a campaign on social media networking sites like facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp etc against the tuition practice dubbing it as a social menace and skilfully managed to enforce a ban on it. They knew if the teachers are banned from the practice, they could exploit the field according to their own whims and taste enjoying monopoly. They can engage the inexperienced against meagre salaries and the poor students have no option but to bear their high handedness.
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