Mangaluru
The state government led by the Congress is trying to snatch away the bright future of lakhs of poor students, by scrapping the National Education Policy-2020 implemented in Karnataka. CM Siddaramaiah and his Cabinet Ministers are already old, as are their children. By proposing a state-specific education policy, they are turning students into guinea pigs, criticised former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai.
He was addressing the gathering during the academician meet to discuss NEP-2020 organised by the Peoples Forum for Karnataka Education, Mangaluru chapter. Taking a dig at CM Siddaramaiah, Bommai said that Siddaramaiah has reached a saturation point, and has settled on a set format for everything, except for NEP-2020. You ask him about the Cauvery water issue, and he answers that the state has written to PM Narendra Modi on the issue. About any other issue, the reply is that he has written to the central government or the state has sent a delegation to the Centre, but no one from the state government has a concrete answer to why they want to scrap NEP-2020, and bring in a state-specific education policy, he said. Seeking an answer from the government, on why they are considering scrapping the existing NEP-2020, Bommai said that apparently Congress says that North Indian imposition is happening through NEP. This is a purely political move to oppose the policy, and one should not bring politics into the education sector. Siddaramaiah can switch from sandals to shoes, then why not change and adopt NEP-2020. Politics in education harms a country, and eventually young minds are at a loss, he added
