Biased Opinion On Political Parties

BLIND FAITH:   No metro city is doing well in school education, but Mumbai and Delhi are easily the worst. One had expected that Delhi would turn the bend when a young political party came to power a year ago. It was anticipated that mistakes would be made before sense and sanity could be established. It now seems that Delhi’s road to learning will remain bumpy like the city’s real roads. We can extend the metaphor, covering the capital’s flyovers. Many of them were completed in a rush to meet the deadline for the Commonwealth Games. In its hurry to improve schools, the new government is ticking one arcane move after another. First it wanted to delete portions from textbooks in order to reduce the curriculum. Now it wants CCTV cameras installed in classrooms and some 90 principals sent to Cambridge for a 10-day training in leadership. Though politically correct, both ideas show desperation to show that something is being done. One didn’t expect that from a young party that has wide...