Possibilities of inclusive business models in NEP: Education cities; An education revolution

Abstract

When Indian government is trying to re draft the Education policy 2019, it is very important to know about different models in education which should be included in our New education policy. There are many debates on how Indian education should be reframed at different levels - primary,secondary and higher education. what should be the mode of Privatisation and what should be the role of government in running education as an inclusive business model which may be available for all as well as long lasting. With the adoption of sustainable development goals 2030 by India where in one of the goals in improving the quality of education, raising the quality of school education in the country is one of the priority areas and thus most important challenge. We will discuss here the current challenges of quality as well as infrastructure and future opportunities of innovations in whole education sector particularly with respect to the different business models in education eco system in India. Stakeholders in education system – Each student, guardian and family, civil society, teachers, organisations, government especially Human resource development ministry and all the state governments being education as state subject also. Education businessmen & professionals who are running educational institutes and Being a partner in social responsibility funds CSR now other big corporates are also a stakeholder in decision making any public policy regarding education. Historical background of education set up in India – prior to formally introduction of modern education system in India, religious education was given in which Vedic mathematics, ancient science, astrology, literature, and education based on war skills. Mainly Madarsas and Pathshalas were the centres for educations. When European came to India , at early stages they started education in control of missionaries which was also religious kind of education. So after establishing the empire in India, Britishers needed formal set of beurocracy and officials to run daily to daily administration. So they needed loyal clerks who may understand their language and can help them in administration by implementing British rules in India. they knew that to rule on India it is also necessary to rule through Indians so thus they were able to create legitimacy and rationality of British empire. They never wanted to educate people for developing the modern virtues of Freedom, Brotherhood & equality like Europe. So, lord Macaulay was appointed a law member in viceroy committee. He was the pioneer in making education policy & strategy for British India. after that Charles bud dispatch, hunter commission, saddler commission, Hartog commissions came. All such commissions recommended elementary education in local languages with European knowledge system and for higher education it was considered that only few should be given such education in English so that by filtration process principle education will go to lower level people of India. It created a class who worked for Britishers, but this English-speaking class became a hierarchal in society and a divide was created between rural and urban educated people. This divide is still there but now people are trying to make their children like those English speaking class and thus we see lots of schools are opening in semi urban and rural areas who claimed to teach in English medium but their quality of education is not better than government schools. So we are seeing problems at both side, private as well as government. So we should think to create such a eco system where synthesis of both type schools can be created and they can be a tool for quality education and centres of excellence in rural areas. If we see the problems of education system, we see multiple problems as shown in my survey also. But in survey on one thing most are agree that there must be an education eco system which can not only guarantee the job but also can facilitate over all development of a child with higher moral & civic education. So can it be possible with existing system? is there any capacity in current system to addressthese issues altogether or should we think beyond the boundary wall. in India lots of good researches were done on education and many good NGOs, volunteer organisations and profit organisations also doing good in their fields, but it could never affect billions of children because of non-replicability issues of microeconomics. So we will be able to attract such good institutions in rural areas when we will give them an eco-system where all can work for quality education and prevent drop out issue. This work cannot be done without government or even without corporate or NGOs. All will have to be involved in any such policy framing for creating an eco-system of education in rural area.it should be based on inclusive business models of educational development in India where no children should be left out for quality education and those who can pay , should pay for these others by giving them some prime services as well as in terms of donation for education like it is happening in some private schools already to implement RTE.