PRIVATIZATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION IN EDUCATION??

PRIVATIZATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION IN EDUCATION??

You ask for development

In the form of facilities,
In the form of equipped infrastructure,
In the form of sanitation and hygiene,
In the form of wide network of railways and roads,
In the form of improved communication,
In the form of means of transport and the answer would be privatization and commercialization in each and every arena of life, be it communication industry, real estate, transport department, pharmaceutical and health industry or the education industry.

Therefore, its highly beneficial to privatize the education system.The tech-oriented buildings, the facilities to the stakeholders ( teachers, students, parents and other staff ), the health and hygiene facilities, food courts in the campus, the green zone, playing stations for kids, entertainment zone, physical fitness court, areas for music and dance etc. all this account into the improved educational phenomenon in India.

It does not mean that privatization does not have its pros and cons.But, the pros are on the greater scale of frequeny in comparison to cons.

Privatization no doubt, demands hundred percent of the individual’s attention, interest and efforts but do result in exploitation to some extent.
1. The perks may or may not be according to the norms not equivalent to the labour expected from the faculty.The indirect slaves are introduced into the market taking undue advantage of the increasing unemployment.
2. Moreover, the class of teachers now-a-days are not who are extraordinarily talented, full of knowledge and multi-tasker.

But this too is not a fault of todays youth entering into the profession of teaching.
1. Simple, because the Govt. aided or Govt.recognised schools are not funded by Govt. for the facilities and advantages like Pvt.institutions or even if the grant is sanctioned but the work is not done upto the mark due to corrupt officials in-between.
2. Secondly the teachers in Govt. Schools too are not ready to give their extra, not taking pains to impart skills, don’t want to bring the change by changing themselves first by changing their carefree attitude,and due to lack of motivation, they are not able to justify with the so-called noble profession, or due to the peer pressure, corrupt system, the surroundings etc., they have got adapted to the same.And all of this is resulting into the youth with no values, lack of skills and no overall development of the personality.

And the problem is in quality and not in quantity.Students are getting poorer in either of the languages-the mother tongue or universal language, in mathematical calculationsand misconceptions of History etc.Therefore, to some extent privatization remove these hurdles by hiring good fleet of professionals.However, some of the organisations themselves are busy in focusing on infrastructure and attendance of students.

The need is to understand the ticking of demographic time bombin the educational system, to think, to plan and to act in right direction by having the mix of both private and govt.provided education in the form of fusion where, every govt. aided or govt. school would undergo a drastic change under private firms but the control should remain in the hands of govt. to look for free and necessary education provision to all till the age of 14.By this means, the rural school’s condition would improve, the students would get more exposure and interactive learning will start.

Similarly, commercialization too is beneficial to some extent where right and optimum publicity bear good results but the commercialization-cum-business orientation stands nowhere where the teachers look for profit first then the advantage and benefits of the students.Teachers are flourishing into the tution centres, coaching the children for the sake of extra finances.This is also true that teachers then don’t justify with the classroom teaching.To them, to go into the class is a mere job of delivering the lecture and that too for their own advantage in return.But the major shortcoming of the system of privatization and commercialization lies with the mushrooming up of the schools at every nook and corner of the city.
In actual, education today has lost its real charm and significance.Every other person whosoever wants to expand his/her business arena, joins the academicians’ class of new ventures in the form of educational institutes like schools or colleges but to a maximum extent to earn the profits, to have the benefits in income tax etc.Moreover, commercialization has modified the year-by-year norms of competitive exams, Either the pattern of examination system or the criteria of minimum eligibility changes where, sometimes, the jobs too are created but all of a sudden after the completion of the whole procedure, the vacancies are stand cancelled.No doubt, the future of Indian youth is at stake where the greater in-depth analysis of the system is required, there should be the emphasis on the vocational education and imparting skills to prepare children for future challenges and make them self stand.However, all this would become possible only when the things are going to be settled at the ground level, with the changes in laws, constitution and charter needs to be implemented.