MADURAI: Former member and ex-convener of Tamil Nadu State Education Policy Committee Prof. L.Jawahar Nesan, who had quit from the committee recently complaining that there is bureaucratic IAS influence and interference in policy making, had alerted the people of Tamil Nadu that the much expected exclusive State Education Policy for Tamil Nadu with uniqueness and distinct features is not being done on expected lines and hence “the people of Tamil Nadu should decide on what to do next because there is influence of National Educational Policy (NEP) on our State policy also in the present policy making process.”
He stressed that “what our people need, what the youth needs in future are missing in the proposed policy. The needs of common man, our socially and economically backward people are missing in the policy that is being given final shape. That is the crux of the matter, our deserving sections of society are being alienated in the proposed education policy by Government of Tamil Nadu. I took the right decision, there were threats, there was some domination in committee discussions, there was external influence by some persons. So, what next is now the important point for Tamil Nadu because our people needs to be sensitized about that education policy that is going to come in our State, whether it is being market-driven etc,”, Prof.Jawahar Nesan said while speaking at a special awareness meeting organized by ‘Save Higher Education Tamil Nadu Movement’ in Madurai on May 28th 2023 in association with various associations who are demanding that Tamil Nadu should have a just, equitable, democratic and secular educational policy because the Tamil Nadu government had opposed the National Education Policy on that ground.
Among those who were present include Prof.Dr.R.Murali, State coordinator of ‘Save Higher Education Movement-Tamil Nadu’ and public campaigners for transparency and democracy in higher education- Prof. ‘MUTA’ Vijayakumar, Dr.A.Srinivasan, Prof.Dr.S.Krishnaswamy, Natarajan and others.
