Role of Government in Education in India By Deepak Parvatiyar June 16, 2015 Rate this post Published in www.elections.in (http://www.elections.in/blog/role-of-government-in-education-in-india/) There has been a raging ongoing debate over alleged attempts to ‘saffronise’ education by the Hindu right wing Bharatiya Janata Party government. BJP’s ideological guru – the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh – has been at the forefront of a complete overhaul of the education system. Now, at a time when the Union Government has hinted at a need for a new education policy, the RSS has upped the ante to force its demand on the union government. At a recent conference of Hindu Education Board, an RSS-affiliate, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) general secretary Krishna Gopal, in the presence of Union Human Resources Development minister Smriti Irani, called for a “complete overhaul” of Indian education system and argued that “only assimilation of Hindu thoughts into country’
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