Protest against privatization of education agenda

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To: Prof. Rajan Harshe, Vice Chancellor, Allahabad University , Allahabad, UP, India

Dated: 16th September, 2009

Sub: Protest against privatization of education agenda.

Dear Prof. Harshe,

Your decision to launch a self-financed B.A. in Media Studies programme through the in-house Instiute for Profession Studies (IPS) inspite of the presence of an independent Department of Journalism and Mass Communication in your Univeristy has invoked strong protest from the students, faculty and intellectuals outside. The objective of IPS was to generate resources for your Univeristy. But since Allahabad Univeristy (AU) has become a central univeristy you're not even able to utilize your full grant for the year.

We believe education is not a market commodity and your abovmentioned initiative is privatization of education at the cost of diluting quality and demoralizing an already existing Department by floating a parallel programme.

We urge you to resist the temptation of privatization and strengthen the mainstream programmes with central funding available to you.

We support the ongoing struggle on and outisde the campus of AU against privatization of education and express solidarity with the struggling students and faculty members on campus.

Sincerely,

Dr Sandeep Pandey
National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM)

149 Signatures

  • Dr Sandeep Pandey
    • Organization/ Institution
    • National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM)
    • Comments
    • Dear Prof. Harshe, Your decision to launch a self-financed B.A. in Media Studies programme through the in-house Instiute for Profession Studies (IPS) inspite of the presence of an independent Department of Journalism and Mass Communication in your Univeristy has invoked strong protest from the students, faculty and intellectuals outside. The objective of IPS was to generate resources for your Univeristy. But since Allahabad Univeristy (AU) has become a central univeristy you're not even able to utilize your full grant for the year. We believe education is not a market commodity and your abovmentioned initiative is privatization of education at the cost of diluting quality and demoralizing an already existing Department by floating a parallel programme. We urge you to resist the temptation of privatization and strengthen the mainstream programmes with central funding available to you. We support the ongoing struggle on and outisde the campus of AU against privatization of education and express solidarity
  • Sandeep
    • Organization/ Institution
    • dpt. journlism & masscommunication
    • Address
    • allhabad
    • Comments
    • we are allways with you.
  • swapnil rai
    • Organization/ Institution
    • Dpt. journlism & masscommunication, allahabad university
    • Address
    • allahabad
    • Comments
    • IPS ko band kro, digree bechna band karo
  • Shabnam hashmi
    • Organization/ Institution
    • anhad
  • muneeb haq
    • Organization/ Institution
    • DUNYATV LAHORE
    • Address
    • 4 MOZANG ROAD,QADIRIA HOUSE LAHORE
    • Comments
    • I ONE HUNDRED PERCENT AGREE WITH YOU
  • Ram Puniyani
    • Organization/ Institution
    • All India Secular Forum
  • P.CHENNAIAH
    • Organization/ Institution
    • Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union.APVVU
    • Address
    • # 6, S.B.I. COLONY
  • Bobby Ramakant
    • Organization/ Institution
    • Asha Parivar
  • Pushkar
    • Organization/ Institution
    • www.mediakhabar.com
    • Address
    • New Delhi
  • Kavita Krishnan
    • Organization/ Institution
    • CPI(ML) Liberation
    • Address
    • В
    • Comments
    • Solidarity with the struggling students of AU. The HRD Ministry is hoping to harness the recession to push through privatisation measures in the name of 'austerity' - recently they have ordered univs to adopt fee hikes, levy user charges etc in order to fund even purchase of essentials leke chemicals for labs and books for libraries. Yet the same govt has money to shower on corporates. Witness their Rs 20 crore gift to a single businessman - Mukesh Ambani in the last Budget (http://thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php?clid=1&id=301512&usrsess=1). Gifts, goveaways and exemptions to corporates in the last year totalled more than the fiscal deficit of the govt! Proves that talk of 'fund crunch' is bogus!
  • amit dagar
    • Organization/ Institution
    • DNA
  • Sandeep Singh
    • Organization/ Institution
    • President, JNU Students Union
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    • В
    • Comments
    • В
  • Devinder Sharma
  • Ravi Rai
    • Organization/ Institution
    • general Secretary, All India Students' Association (AISA)
    • Address
    • В
    • Comments
    • Kapil Sibal's agenda and even Prof. Yashpal's report all boil down to a privatisation package... We must resist it in the days to come in all Univ campuses. Keep the struggle going, Allahabad Univ students!
  • Shailendra
    • Organization/ Institution
    • IIT Kanpur/Uni. of Allahabad
    • Address
    • В
    • Comments
    • В
  • Manjulata
  • nikhil anand giri
  • Makarand Purohit
    • Organization/ Institution
    • Manthan Adhayan Kendra
    • Address
    • Near Dushehara Maidan, Barwani
    • Comments
    • Stop privatizing education now!
  • AMAR KANWAR
    • Organization/ Institution
    • Filmmaker
  • Sanjay Sharma
    • Organization/ Institution
    • BHARAT PUNARNIRMAN DAL
    • Comments
    • WE ARE WITH U!
  • Anjali Singh
    • Organization/ Institution
    • Saaksham Foundation
    • Comments
    • It is unfortunate that educationists would want to indulge in acts to promote privatization of education. Before they put all the think tanks in this direction I feel that the effort should rather be directed towards ensuring that education should be made avialable to all those children who have a right to it but are still being deprived.
  • mohit jaiswal
    • Organization/ Institution
    • IT_BHU
    • Comments
    • keep education away from privatisztion
  • urvashi sharma
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    • social worker
    • Address
    • f 2108 rajajipuran lucknow , u.p.
    • Comments
    • I am against privatization of anything of course education comes first of all
  • Alok Putul
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    • В
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    • Chhattisgarh
    • Comments
    • В
  • Rohit Prajapati
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    • Activist, Gujarat
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    • В
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    • Started with semi-privatization в privatization в commercialization - comodification of education.
  • Pradeep Esteves
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    • Context India
    • Address
    • Bangalore
    • Comments
    • Non-Commercialised education is what our country needs
  • Anup Singh
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    • Documentary Film Maker
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    • Malad West, Mumbai.
    • Comments
    • I strongly protest the privatization of education.
  • Suresh Bhat B.
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    • Mangalore
    • Comments
    • Privatisation of education must be resisted at all costs
  • Saurabh Sengupta
  • adri thakur
  • ajay prakash
    • Organization/ Institution
    • The Public Agenda
  • randhirsingh suman
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    • loksangharsh patrika
    • Address
    • barabanki
    • Comments
    • kulpati nahi daku hai shikshajagat ka bhalu hai
  • S.R.Darapuri
    • Organization/ Institution
    • P.U.C.L
    • Address
    • 18/455, Indira Nagar, Lucknow (U.P.) India
    • Comments
    • No more commercialization of education pl.
  • Prabha Chaturvedi
    • Organization/ Institution
    • Exnora Lucknow
    • Address
    • D2/4 Paper Mill Colony, Lucknow
    • Comments
    • I am against any such privatisation
  • Rama Kant Chaturvedi
    • Organization/ Institution
    • Exnora Lucknow
    • Address
    • В
    • Comments
    • В
  • Mr. Akhil Gogoi
    • Organization/ Institution
    • Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti, Assam
    • Address
    • Ward No - IX, Golaghat, Assam - 785621
  • Rahul Dubey
  • P.B.DSa
  • prabhat singh
    • Organization/ Institution
    • Dainik Bhaskar
    • Address
    • Chandigarh
    • Comments
    • Even the apex court is against this kind of education which is aimed to rich only and produce mediocres. VC should initiate and take pro student action.
  • Ashwini
  • Rahul Pandey
    • Organization/ Institution
    • Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow - Noida Campus
    • Address
    • D-238, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
  • anurag
    • Organization/ Institution
    • media
  • Anand Mathew IMS
    • Organization/ Institution
    • Vidya Jyoti College
    • Address
    • Delhi
  • Prithvi R Sharma
  • Prof. Anil Sadgopal
    • Organization/ Institution
    • Shiksha Adhikar Manch, Bhopal
    • Address
    • В
    • Comments
    • In India, privatisation (including self-financiang courses and all other forms of PPP) is a direct result of withdrawal of the State from its Constitutional obligations to provide adequate funding for education. It also implies that the character of knowledge would be allowed to be determined by the needs of the global market, rather than by social needs or the knowledge-related requirements of the subject itself. Finally, it is an agenda that promotes inequality and social exclusion. Do we want to build an India for the benefit of the global capital or for the welfare of the people?
  • Sandip Dasverma
    • Organization/ Institution
    • В
    • Address
    • 2500 George Washington Way, Apt#120
    • Comments
    • Educational institutions must give a sustainable maximum output for minimum return on investment, which is opposite of business's natural goal to maximise return (profit) on investment.
  • somayajula achuta ramaiah
    • Organization/ Institution
    • home
  • Ish Mishra
    • Organization/ Institution
    • Delhi University
    • Address
    • 17 B, University Road, Univ. of delhi, Delhi -- 110007
    • Comments
    • Oppose al the attemots at commercialization of education
  • Saif Jung Khan
  • Nisha Biswas