Put It In Practice
MINISTER for Education and Sports Devi Prasad Ojha said that His Majesty’s Government
was working seriously to make the education sector free from politics. Addressing a
two-day workshop on the Role of Mass Media in Education organised by the Department of
Education in Kathmandu the other day, Education Minister Ojha said that the education
sector has been a victim of political intervention and terrorist activities, that have
severely affected its quality. Education plays a vital role in the development of the
country. Education creates skilled, informed and enlightened human resource, which is
instrumental for social and economic development of the nation. Thus, the level of
development and prosperity depends on the quality of education. Nepal, on the one hand,
has still a large number of illiterate, uneducated and unskilled people, while on the
other hand academics and experts have complained that the quality of education has not
been raised at par with the international standard. Education means quality and if it
lacks quality it is no education at all. The government has accorded high priority to this
sector and has allocated a large amount of money from the exchequer for its development.
However, the quality of education has not improved significantly. This is mainly due to
the heavy politicisation of this sector. Against this background, the remarks of Minister
Ojha comes as a sigh of relief for those who are really worried about the deteriorating
quality of education, However, it is easier said than done to bring improvement. The
education sector is so severely affected that it would need really a hard work and strong
commitment to make it free from politics and political intervention. Educational
institutes are the place of learning and efforts to disturb and destroy this atmosphere
are definitely the acts of pushing Nepal backward. Nobody has the right to play in the
fate of thousands of students, who are the hopes and pillars of Nepal’s development
in the future. The frequent calls for strike in the education sector has made the future
of students further uncertain and bleak. As said by Minister Ojha, education must be free
from politics and political intervention. However, this commitment needs to be translated
into action. For this, all political parties and responsible citizens need to work
collectively for the lofty goal of raising the quality of education by making it free from
politics.
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