Draft education policy is pro-Hindutva: Islamic scholars
Panel opined that it was anti-minority and will further marginalise the minorities if implemented forcibly.
Hyderabad: Islamic scholars and educationists from the Muslim community who participated in a roundtable conference on Monday to discuss the Draft National Education Policy 2016, opined that it was anti-minority and will further marginalise the minorities if implemented forcibly. The conference was organised by the Minorities Commission for AP and TS here on Monday.
Commission chairman Abid Rasool Khan, Professor Jahangir of EFLU, educationists Sajid Ali, Dr Faqruddin, Mohammed Mujeebuddin, Ahmadullah and Azharuddin, said that the draft policy was indirectly aimed at promoting Hindutva ideology and it promoted the gurukul system which lacks the salient features of modern education system.
Mr Rasool Khan said the objectives of the draft policy were against the Constitutional values of equality, secularism and pluralism and it seeks to infringe upon the Constitutionally protected rights of minority educational institutions.
The speakers felt that the new policy will alienate and discriminate students from the SC, ST, BC, Minorities communities and even drive away women students from the mainstream.
They said that the teaching of culture should be left to the parents and the Centre has to promote mainstream education. The conference resolved to take their grievances to the Centre besides seeking more time to file objections on the draft policy.