BANGALORE – “Private educational institutions and universities are today occupied in creating laborers for private companies. These institutions are pressurized to impart the education as per the demands of companies; and agreements are made to provide labors to private companies. This notion is conflicting with the very idea of model ‘just society’.  Instead, universities should have agreements with reputed research centers, which indeed will lead to comprehensive development of society.” said Prof. V S Shridhar.

He was addressing the gathering of students, faculties and intellectuals at a seminar on education organized by Students Islamic Organisation of India, Karnataka Zone in collaboration with Department of Education, Bangalore University at Prof. Venkatagiri  Gowda Memorial Auditorium- Jnana Bharati Campus, on Tuesday, April 19.

Expressing anguish over the motto of foreign universities, he said, “In the name of quality education, sub-standard foreign universities are being welcomed in India. There is no space for the art, culture and social sciences of our land, in those universities. Only intention of those universities is to create human resource for companies of their land.” 

“Private institutions have malformed from service to business centers over the period.  57.4% of govt. institutions in the year 2001have reduced to 36.7% in 2010, leading to gross appointment of ‘contract lecturers’. If this tendency is continued, govt. teachers will vanish one day.” he said expressing the apprehensions.

Another eminent speaker, Dr. Banjagere Jayaprakash, pointing out various issues, expressed the anguish over biasness and discrimination being practiced in education sector on the basis of sex, religion, and language; he said, “Existing qualitative-discrepancies between private and govt. educational institutions are leading to gigantic disparities among the students studying respective institutions. Global capitalist interference is giving raise to class division in society. Hence there is an urgent need of reforms towards attaining social justice.”

Various important subjects like, ‘Critical analysis of Indian Education System’, ‘Social Justice in Education Sector- Issues and Challenges’, ‘Political Economy of Indian Education’, and ‘Education & Social Transformation’ are discussed by eminent scholars Dr. Jeevan Kumar and Dr. Dominick, professors of Bangalore University.