Left slams bid to ‘communalise and commercialise’ education

NEW DELHI: TheLeft parties have slammed the NEP for its attempts to “centralise, communalise and commercialise” education, saying that the policy showed that the Centre has strayed from the key idea of universalising education and focused, instead, on creating “education markets”.
While CPM alleged that no suggestions on the draft policy given by academia or intellectuals were used, CPI took exception to the decision to teach students up to class 5 in mother tongue or regional language, lowering the stakes of board exams, allowing foreign universities to set up campuses, and setting up a single higher education regulator.