About her new portfolio, Irani vowed to strengthen textile and apparel sectors and said her efforts will be primarily directed towards skill development and engaging more youngsters. “So with dialogues in place, there will be no necessity of agitation”, Javadekar said.
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Irani’s term was confrontational, featuring run-ins with academia and students of institutions including the elite Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), Delhi University, Hyderabad University and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).
He said with the Prime Minister’s focus on creating crores of jobs in the key sector in the next three years, Texprocil looks forward to receiving full support from the new ministers for making the industry more vibrant through increase in exports and generating employment.
Though the national policy on education could not be implemented during her tenure, she tweets, “Am glad NEP 2016 which has been drafted after exhaustive consultations & right now seeking feedback from citizens will soon be released”. Therefore, to make education meaningful is the real challenge.
Congress today claimed that under HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar, a “systematic attempt to hand over everything” in public education system to the private sector would gain momentum and appealed to progressive and nationalist forces to come together to counter the trend.
Recalling that the minister had waived a fine of Rs 200 crore on an influential industrialist accused of environmental degradation, he said in this backdrop Javadekar taking charge of the HRD Ministry was “all the more ominous and sinister”.
Speaking to NDTV, Guha, who incidentally also taught at Yale University recounted one incident of Irani’s high-handedness with senior professors and academics.
Asked why Irani was shunted out if, Tewari said, “Maybe the pace of saffronisation was not to the satisfaction of the PM”.
Kumar was upset with Javadekar’s remarks that he would build on initiatives taken by the ministry in the past two years.
Authorities said that the minister may take up the new education policy immediately.
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“Education provides meaning and value to life”. Calling himself a product of student politics during the JP movement, the Minister said education was an “emancipator and agent of change” and it will play a big role in bringing changes in the India in the 21st century. Its subject: respecting teachers.
