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Prof.Anil Sadgopal .

noted educationist and social activist .

Prof. Anand l<umar , CSSS.JNU .

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20.01 .05 9.00pm.

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"Year 201 O.The ultramodern campus ofthe newly Coca Cola municipal schools corning By Lalit K. Jha ~ .

' Bill Clinton Inten1ationall Jnivcrsity'.

established NEW DELHl, JAN. 2. Visualise this! Slwn duldren going Lo .

near Delhi. Two women students meet. One calls a Coca Cola Municipal PrinJarY SchoolatRajouri C-arden in .

outto the other, 'Come, let us go somewhere and West Delhi oramothertakingherdaughterto aMax Mtmicipal .

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relax'. The other says, 'I have a packed day today Child Health Care Centre at Badaf!Jvr in South Delhi. .

. In the first period, there is a Unilever practical in .

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Well, with the Municipal Corporation ofDelhi decidingthe Coca-Cola Physics Lab; in the second period, to invite private players in a big way to uplift the quality.

there is the Proctor & Gambles session on Western ofprimary education and basic health car-e faci1ities in.

Dance Appreciation in the Pepsi Theatre; this wilJ the Capital, schools and dispensaries carrying name:-;be followed by the Suzuki Lecture on Infonnation .

ofpopular products, corporate bodies or individuals.

Technology inthe Microsoft Auditorium. And then could become a reality in the New Year .......... .

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the recess. Come, let us meet in the Kentucky Under the new policy, the civic body would encourage its .

Chicken Canteen in the Union Carbide Square.'' municipal primary schools to oe run by private school .

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-Excerpted from Anil Sadgopal's 'Shiksha management., organisations worl\..ing in the field ofeducation, .

corporate houses, companies and even by rich people.

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Mein Badlav ka Sawaal', 2000, p. 257. .

The Hindu, Monday, Jan 03, 2005 .

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The Hindu report of 3 Jan, 05 makes it clear that Prof. Sadgopal's humorous futuristic commentary .

about the future of India's education, is f~st translating itself into a harsh reality. The agenda of the .

conference ofthe State Ministers of education, held at Bangalore on.January 10-11 , included items like .

ng fees, introduction of foreign universities. At the.

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introduction of private universities bill, restructuri--conference HRD Minister Arjun Singh reiterated the commitment of 100°/o FDI in higher education and .

stated that GATS in education is inevitable. How~ver, we must know that neither GATS nor 100°/o .

FDI in higher education is inevitable; it is up to the national governments to decide whether to .

place education on the table ofWTO for negotiations. Out of the 143 member countries of WTO.

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<?_nly 40 countries have placed education as a negotiating item. Indian govt could have chosen notto , .

place education as a tradable item. Butthe Indian govt. chose to surrendereducation before the corporate .

giants through WTO. The massive privatisation and unfolding corporatization of our entire education .

system is a direct outcome ofour govt,s shafneful and totally uncalled for surrenderbefore the WTO. .

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Friends, what would have seemed absurd and ridiculous yesterday, has become a reality today with .

the Coke taking over Municipal Schools of Delhi. As we are waging a battle againstthe Nestle Outlet's .

takeover ofJNU'~dhaba spaces, we must realise that days may not be far offwhen corporate giants like .

Nestle will try to dictate our academics as well. When the Indian govt. had a choice of not handing over .

our education, it chose the corporate interest over the interest of its people. Today, when we have to .

make a decision about the Nestle Outlet we must decide whom do we side with -the interest ofthe .

common students and citizens orthe corporate ? .

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sd/-Raj~sh Ranjan, Jt. Secy., AISA, JNUsdl-Awadhesh, Gen. Secy., AISA, JNU .

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