Amidst the row on the languages studied under the National Education Policy (NEP), the RSS education wing – Vidya Bharati – has made its stand clear that it is not necessary for everyone to study Hindi.
Vidya Bharati national President Ravindra Kanhare said on Friday: “Vidya Bharati is of the opinion that education should be in mother tongue. This is something that is said in the 1968 policy (on education) and also proposed in NEP.
Kanhare was speaking at Vidya Bharati’s annual press conference at the Constitution Club. On the issue of increasing school fees in private schools in metropolitan cities, he said that “if parents create pressure, the fees can be rebuilt”. He also said that the parents should judge whether their children are getting quality education to justify the fees paid by them.
“To determine that the school fees are the job of the state governments. States typically have a system where the fees are to be increased, it will be done through a committee under the District Magistrate. If the fees are to be increased as much as possible, a state-level committee sees it.
The statement comes under the backdrop of increasing concern over arbitrary growth in fees by private schools in metropolitan cities. The Delhi Public School in Dwarka, the capital has been cheated by the High Court as a “money making machine”, which treats students such as “chattail”.
Answering a question on NCERT to remove the mention of Babri Masjid from class 12 textbooks, Kanhare said, “NCERT is the job to bring changes in the course. We should stick to historical facts in books. We have seen all these years that there is nothing in some books. If nothing is given to them.”
Talking about Vidya Bharati’s success stories in the last one year, Kanhare said that more than 93% of its schools were successful in class 12th, with more than 2,500 students scoring more than 90%, as 27 alumni approved UPSC this year.
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