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Autonomy for Selected Institutions is a Step Ahead Towards Commercialization

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Surveys, reports and news analysis say educational institutions across the nation are in worst condition; due to lack of funds, infrastructure, and vacant seats of permanent faculties which are the basic needs to run any institutions. In such a time UGC’s decision to grant autonomy to 60 institutions shows government’s failure and lack of interest towards the education sector.

A liberalised regime in the education sector and autonomy would not facilitate education system, but it’s a step towards commercialization of education, where privatization is its first step. When education sectors get privatized corporate/business tycoons enter in the system, and the curriculum will be shaped according to the market demand like share markets, which produce skilled labour which is nothing but legal child labour.

Autonomy to institutions is a step towards commercialization of publicly-funded institutes and government’s withdrawal from financial support towards higher education. Later to run the institutions, autonomous bodies may initiate short term courses which turn universities into private institutions (which run certificate courses). Expenditure of prestigious institutions has already been slashed down, and it will adversely affect students from the economically poor background, which leads to Education for Rich, not for all.

The ‘autonomy’ move in future may be dominated by the corporate sector,  and significantly affect diversity within university spaces, democratic spaces will be closed and future of the nation will not depend on universities, but kings and their decedents may rule the nation.  The education system will not produce leaders who make leaders but will produce machines which run on the programming of corporate or business tycoons who are supported by rulers with selective mindsets.

There is a need to re-think on the move of centre and intelligentsia of the nation should raise the voice, to discuss, and make policies which make the nation develop.

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Syed Azharuddin is native of Warangal, Telangana State, completed KG to PG from his hometown Warangal. After completing master’s in technology from JNTU Hyderabad worked as Assistant Professor in department of Electronic and Communication. Later he did masters in English & Literature from MANUU, Hyderabad and Psychology from Kakatiya University, Warangal. Apart from various contributions in the field of engineering, he has done research work on "Education in Telangana '' issues of education in newly formed states and "Legal Awareness" a handbook on legal studies. He is a well known leader of Students Islamic Organisation of India (Former Secretary General )and served SIO in various capacities and travelled across the nation. He also served as the CEO of Inqhab (a pan India incubation centre) and executive member of All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat. Azharuddin has experience of writing articles on burning issues, he contributed a series of articles on India and Dalits, Young Entrepreneurs, Crisis Management: Post Pandemic, Assam NRC and issues related to Education & Educational Institutions.

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