Make education at all levels poll issue: Prof Wani to political parties

Prominent political scientist Prof Gull Muhammad Wani has urged all political parties to make education at all levels a poll issue.

In a statement Wani emphasized that political parties should also incorporate education in the manifestoes and election speeches. “The distribution overlap of responsibilities between different levels of government should not be an obstruction in any discussion on entire landscape of education.

   

The education in Jammu and Kashmir and more particularly the Valley has assumed the form of  conflict education. We desperately need to think about it.

The growing culture of privatization at bottom level along with decline and erosion of public education at higher levels has thrown multiple challenges .These challenges can be converted into opportunities if only we devise policies leading to development of human resources in our state.”

He said the political class needs to understand that no nation on earth can rise above the level of its teachers. The societal transformation is more important than economic transformation. There is need for transformational reforms .The Society is not meant for the present .It is a contract between the  living ,dead and the unborn. 

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