The NEP’s laudable ambition should not override the value of continuity

The NEP is a whole lot more than this. It seeks to impose a centralised policy- and syllabus-setting framework, in which elected representatives have a minimal role and the initial set of appointees will secure a stranglehold. Higher education governing bodies are to be, once appointed, self-propagating, without any outside influence possible, again a recipe for the initial appointees to secure a stranglehold over the institutional culture. All research funding will be centralised, under one Fund, which would vet research proposals for relevance, again, making for ideological control of research. To ignore these features that seek and entrench totalitarian control of education in the country, and waffle about the rest, is meaningless