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The Left Front-ruled states of West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura will not adopt the educational reforms outlined by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, a senior Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader said in Agartala on Saturday.
"In the name of educational reforms, the UPA government has been trying to privatise and centralise the education system," a CPI-M central committee member.
The CPI-M leader also added that the centre cannot take a unilateral decision to reform the country's educational system, ignoring the states.
The Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday had announced that a slew of measures, including making class 10 board exams optional, accreditation agencies for schools, free education and private sector involvement in primary learning were being planned by the UPA government. But, the proposed reforms had drawn criticism from the Left.
"Before any kind of educational reforms, the union government should take the views of state governments, educationists, guardians, students, intellectuals besides the teachers' and students' organisations," said the Tripura School Education Minister Tapan Chakraborty.
"Any kind of sudden and hurriedly taken decision might affect the future of students and country's educational method," he told media persons here.
CPI-M's students wing, the Students Federation of India (SFI) and Tripura Government Teachers' Association and Tripura Non-Government Teachers' Association, both frontal organisations of the CPI-M, have also opposed the new educational reforms of the UPA government.
The West Bengal's Left Front government has also criticised the proposed educational reforms dubbing them as efforts aimed at "absolute centralisation and privatisation" of India's education system.
The West Bengal Secondary Education Minister Partha Deyn had talked to the media regarding this on Thusday.
