Sanskriti schools: children of the greater God

RTE has been criticized by many, for many reasons. At the core of RTE is to help uplift the underprivileged by providing their children better education. There is nothing wrong with that, even though you and I are paying for that through the education cess. You may ask whether the cess, is really doing any good.

RTE is a rather noble idea, but we seem to be becoming an Abhimanyu who soon will not know how to come out of the battle formation. Now, there is a new one coming in the form of elite schools

But, now the same folk who brought upAs if this was not enough, the IAS officers who framed these law are looking at a new elite schooling system for their children by way of Sanskriti schools. These schools, somewhat hypocritically, have only 15% of their seats reserved for children of underprivileged classes, and 55% for children of officers of all India government services and central services. These schools will be government funded, and built on government land and also subsidized by the government.

Not too bad yet. But, the government subsidizing means the government will dip into your pocket. The remaining 20% seats will be up for grabs but parents need to cough up more than parents attached to the subsidized 80%. In a way it does imply that the government wants children of its officers to be taught separately and will less infiltration from children of weaker sections. News article in TOI