For a country like that of India which has a population of more than a billion the development lies in the intellectual growth of people. Having more than fifty percent of its population below thirty five the demographic changes are in favour of the youth. But the education infrastructure to educate and train this huge number of people is insufficient here. Especially in higher education India lags much behind its foreign counterparts. It has less than fifty percent literacy rate when it comes to higher education.
To fill the gap the government has allowed the not for profit institutions, but are such institutions actually working actually without profit? I guess not. So how do they deceive the government, the tax authorities and of course the students.
The quality of teaching and administration gets affected by their nepotism as many of the resources employed to run the show are organised by the relatives and friends of the owners.
Posts such as the Chancellor, the Vice Chancellor, the director or the deputy director are reserved for the close relatives like son, daughter, son-in-law and daughter-in-law or at least to their cronies. While earning hefty packages they make sure that the sole objective of earning more and more profit is being met both in short and long run.
The quality of services provided in the campus also gets affected as the service provider has to meet multiple objectives besides earning profits. Most important thing for them is to share a large pie of their profit with the management. The end result tis that the payer gets inferior service for dear money. For example in an outsourced canteen, the contractor has to share his profit with the corrupt management, effectively raising the cost of production and finally leading to a substandard quality food being served to the students. But the transaction turns very prolific for the management who doesn’t have to pay any tax.
The same applies to the quality of the professors who work at very less salary and under very inflexible environment as the decision making lies with a handful of people.
The cost of education in such institutions remains higher than the unaided autonomous institutions without any substantial improvement in the quality of education. The owners earn huge money deceiving everyone.
The solution lies in allowing the “For Profit” institutions that while openly earning profits would be transparent with every stake holder. And the students would be much more informed before engaging as they are not with any of today’s pseudo-non-profit-making –institutions.
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