Meghnad SPublished

Three years in - GST, Aadhar, demonetisation, political funding. And we’re just past the halfway mark! The Bharatiya Janata Party government completes three grand years today. The past three years have been splattered with many scheme launches and many speeches. So very many speeches. In all this, many are asking themselves the question: How does one judge the performance of this government?

In case you hadn’t noticed, India is an aspirational country full of aspirational people. In our hearts we know that we are not good enough, that we can’t beat those liberal western powers – which we love to hate – so a few among us go to live in that shiny part of the world. Our government has finally figured out that one big reason why this happens is our horrible higher education system.

The policy aims to restructure the school education system by extending it to children under six. For the Indian state, kids are like Pokemon. Its education policy used to be “gotta catch ‘em all”. Now, as laid out in the National Education Policy 2020, the goal is “gotta catch ‘em young”. Because, as I explained in the first part of this series on the NEP, human beings are considered a resource that must be exploited for the development of the society.