Fee Hike and the JNU Saga That Followed

What do you think are the right ingredients to make a country prosper?

According to me, the answer is in the basics, proper economic management, a healthy population and an educated and motivate citizens who are innovating and reaching newer heights in ever field.

While economic and health aspects are important, in a way, they too have their roots in education and wisdom.

So shouldn’t we focus on making our education system foolproof? A high literacy rate would not only ensure an educated population but also a population who is not easily fooled, takes care of the environment, lives in a comparatively crime-free society and helps the country prosper.

But, India sure is facing a crisis here.

While the literacy rate isn’t as high as we would expect it to be. We are discouraging people who are making it to college with an itch to study.

Yup, I am talking about the JNU fee hike. And before you start with JNU students are culprits and “tukde tukde gang”. Let me stop you. If they are whatever you say they are, why are they roaming free right now? Why no arrests? Why are they allowed to contest elections?

If you don’t have a proper answer for that, just understand that you got played and students are just students.

Also, let me clear, that JNU claims that it hadn’t hiked its fees in years. Thus making it rather alright to hike it now.

While that is correct, let’s also take into consideration that we can afford subsidies for universities across the country if we really really want to.

We have spend crores on a statue, on the PM chartered planes and god know what not.

That money, if used to make our education system affordable would benefit all, right?

Think about it.