Students flay NEP, submit memo to Guru Nanak Dev University varsity Vice Chancellor

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, August 12

Opposing the National Education Policy, city-based students, under the banner of the Punjab Students Union (PSU), submitted a memorandum addressed to the Vice Chancellor of Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU), Amritsar, to the principal of Lyallpur Khalsa College here on Wednesday.

Leaders of the union said the NEP introduced by the Centre entailed privatisation and commercialisation of the education system. “The education budget has also been reduced by one per cent this year,” said Varjit Kaur, district vice-president of the union. She alleged that the Modi-led Union Government, backed by the RSS, was spreading its fascist agenda and depriving students from marginalised sections of society of the Right to Education.

“We strongly condemn the discontinuation of scholarships provided to students of aided schools and demand that the NEP be repealed. Topics such as democracy and secularism are being removed from the syllabus, which is against the Constitution of the country, said Varjit Kaur.

The student leader said their other demands included boosting infrastructure for online education, smartphones to students, end to dual system for ITI students and rollback of decision to charge fees from SC/ST category students.