My letter published in The Hindu, written on an article written by Zoya hasan

Zoya Hasan in  her article, in The Hindu  , ‘No Acche Din for higher education, “(20.5.15)  has expressed her worry about the inability of even a single Indian university to get a global ranking . This sorry state of affairs  has not emerged suddenly. The coma stage of Indian universities is the result of decades of neglect of education sector by the successive governments . All the governments at the state and central level have starved this sector by the allocation of very inadequate funds and allowed reckless expansion of the private sector . The net result of this faulty policy is the shocking commercialisation of the higher education in which the managements are allowed to run educational institutions for profiteering purpose  , the teachers are allowed to be  treated as bonded labourers , the a students as  mere consumers and higher education as a salable commodity . It is disgusting to know that ,the posts of vice chancellor to teachers and non teaching  are given to the highest bidders . In such an atmosphere, how can we expect high quality universities? The decease that has affected the higher education system is too deep and wide spread and require  an emergency operation by a team of top level surgeons   who are to be  given autonomy in their duty by the HRD ministry, which has the responsibility to convert the huge Indian young population into human capital formation if ,Acche Din   really has to  happen .