Education Manifesto

AKHIL BHARATIYA SAMAJWADI ADHYAPAK SABHA

SAVE EDUCATION, SAVE THE NATION!

With reference to the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections

We the Students, Parents, Teachers, Principals, Concerned Citizens for
Education, Farmers, Women, Laborers, Adivasis, Backward Classes,
Minorities and all the marginalized sections declared our
EDUCATION MANIFESTO

We Demand

Education is our Birth Right.

Total Education from KG to PG, should be

Free, Equal and Quality.

No country or society becomes a super power merely on the basis of military
might. The early 21 st century is a period of social, political and economic changes.
The period is now widely known as the beginning of “Knowledge Age.”
Knowledge is Power. Knowledge Economy. Knowledge Society, Knowledge
Workers, Knowledge Capital are the main features of the present yare. Hence all

the countries are dedicated to knowledge creation and dissemination of knowledge
through Education.
Under the Chaturvarnya system prevalent in India, education was monopolized by
the higher classes and castes therefore women, shudras and atishudras were
deprived of the fundamental right of Education. Through the efforts of social
revolutionaries’ like Mahatma Phule, Shahu Maharaj, Dr. Ambedkar, Mahatma
Gandhi, Maulana Azad, Savitribai Phule, Fatimabi Shaikh
Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil, the doors of education were opened for the masses. The
Constitution of India provides each child with the Right to Education. After
Independence, the Government shouldered the responsibility of providing
education to all to some extent.
However, due to the 1990s policies of Liberalization, Privatization and
Globalization along with GATT and IMF , the landscape of Indian education
policy has been sub versed. Consequently, Education in India is in a dire threat.
High cost, profit orientation, commercialization, inequality, casteism, limited
access, profit over merit, communalism, encroaching independence of education,
etc, are just some of the many problems that plague the education system today.
As a result the backward classes, women, girls, minorities and workers are
deprived of education. The Government is avoiding the constitutional
responsibility to educate its citizens. The Government actively shuts down its own
institutions while encouraging rampant privatization in this key sector. Lack of
availability of funds is often quoted as an excuse for the strategy of reducing
investments/allocation into services like education and health. Consequently
education has become the monopoly of the higher classes and elites . In the light
of this, we the students, teachers, parents, educationalists, hereby declare that we
shall cast votes in the Loksabha election for those who will provide
FREE, EQUAL, QUALITY AND SECULAR EDUCATION right from kG to PG
to all children .

POLICY STATEMENT:

1. Free, Equal and Quality education from KG to PG
2. Education should not be treated as a Private Good but as a Public Good
3. A minimum of 8% of GDP should be spent on education. Education Loan
system should be scraped and more scholarships be made available.
4. As per the judgment of Allahabad High Court common
school/neighborhood school must be established
5. Non Grant Policy should be abolished and every School/College must be
provided with full grant
6. Privatization, Commercialization, Profiteering, PPP Scheme, Globalization
must be immediately stopped
7. It is to be understood that universalization of education is attained only
through Government initiative. Hence Government
Schools/Colleges/Institutes must be strengthened
8. Inequality and stratification in education must be stopped
9. The aim of education should not be to produce skill labourers for the market,
but to create citizens that think freely, cherish and protect the Constitutional
ideals
10. The core values of syllabi should be of Constitutional values
11. To imbibe dignity of labour , skill oriented education should be mandatory
to all students and it should be based on the ‘Nai-Talim’ philosophy of
Mahatma Gandhi.
12. Manuvadi, Patriarchal, Unequal, Capitalistic, and Communal education
system should be transformed in an Egalitarian system
13. Recognizing that Life long Education is an inalienable part of Social
Education, Public Libraries must be instituted and funded by the
Government.

PRE-PRIMARY EDUCATION :

1. Neurologists and Child Psychologists state that 90% of development of
brain occurs between the ages of 0 to 6 and the remaining 10% over the rest
of ones life. Hence scientific child education is of the utmost importance.
2. Nutrition scheme for children between 0 to 3 years and their mothers should
be modern and operational
3. Education for 3 to 6 year old children should be free, quality, compulsory
and equal
4. It is essential to have an independent directorate, compressive laws,
allocation of adequate funds, training, etc. for pre primary education
5. In order to provide high quality pre primary education, the government
should have proper allocation of funds . It is quite shameful that even after
70 years of independence we don’t have any policy for ‘pre-primary
education’

PRIMARY EDUCATION:

1. Primary education ought to be compulsory, equal and of high quality
2. All essential infrastructure of high quality should be made available to every
school.
3. It should be the mandatory responsibility of the Education Department to
ensure that all children attend schools as well as continue without dropping
out.
4. Teachers should not be assigned non-academic work like census , election
etc.so that they can concentrate on teaching only.
5. Student-Teacher ratio should be 20:1 only
6. Schools should have No Detention policy but their should be continuous
evaluation of every student.
7. All vacancies of teaching and non-teaching staff should be filled in
immediately
8. The government should ensure that the children belonging to Adivasi,
Nomadic Tribes, Denotified Tribes, Divyang, Migrant Laborers, Minorities,
Transgenders, etc. would get necessary educational facilities.
9. All children must be provided Skill Education

SECONDARY AND HIGHER SECONDARY EDUCATION:

1. Education upto standard 12 th std. ought to be compulsory, equal and of high
quality
2. Along with essential amenities, highly trained teaching and non teaching
staff should be appointed
3. Schools must be provided with sufficient salary and non salary grants
4. Student teacher ration should be 35:1, hence appointments of teachers
should made accordingly.
5. Non Detention policy should be followed upto standard 8 th std, however,
regular evaluation of the students must be conducted
6. Vocational education should be imparted to every student
7. Keeping vacancies of staff in abeyance and contract hiring of teachers must
be stopped

HIGHER EDUCATION:

1. Even if Higher education is not made compulsory, it should be free of cost
2. Gross enrollment ration of Higher Education must be minimum 50%. Hence
it is imperative to establish more colleges and universities
3. These institutions must be of government or government aided
4. Non Grantable Courses, keeping vacancies of staff in abeyance and contract
hiring of teachers must be stopped
5. Academic independence of colleges and universities must be maintained
and no governmental interference should take place.
6. Higher education leads to knowledge creation, hence research facilities and
scholarships should be provided to researchers.
7. Technical and vocational education facilities must be made available to 12 th
standard and above students
8. Higher Education Commission Bill , New University Act, National Medical
Commission Bill must be cancelled and University administration should be
of democratic nature
9. All vacancies of professors and students must be filled in and the 13% roster
system must be cancelled

EDUCATION OF MINORITIES:

1. The Justice Sacchar Committee reported that despite a strong urge among
Muslim children to peruse studies, the socio-economic conditions prevent
them from doing so. Hence the recommendations of the Sacchar Committee
report should be implemented in toto
2. Scholarships to encourage these children should be implemented by the
government and awareness programs must be conducted
3. A tri-lingual system should be implemented as far as Urdu language is
concerned
4. Medium of instruction should be regional language or national language
Hindi or English and Urdu must be offered as an additional language and
necessary arrangement must be made; so that Muslim and Non Muslim
Students can learn Urdu
5. It is observed that, Muslim children are vocationally talented hence more
Vocational and Entrepreneurial training centre should be established to
develop their skills.

EDUCATION OF DIVYANG, ADIVASI, TRANSGENDER:

1. Educational needs of Blind, Orthopedically Handicapped, Deaf Dumb,
Mentally Challenged, Tribals, Transgenders, etc., students are different.
Therefore taking into account their needs appropriate educational facilities
must be provided irrespective of their number.
2. Hostels for migrant children, tribal children & Divyang children must be
established near the schools and colleges so that they can be brought into the
mainstream of education.

We appeal to every contestant of the 2019 elections to clearly their EDUCATION
POLICY.

Mr.Jayavantrao Thakare                       Dr. Sharad Javadekar
President                                                 Vice-President