CS May 2023 | Seite 8

Higher Education in India in the Grip of Monopoly

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Capital - Highest Level of Unemployment Crisis

The National Education Policy ( NEP ), 2020 is one among the several anti-people laws and sudden decisions declared during the period of COVID- 19 pandemic which clearly exposed the extreme crisis created by the exploitative capitalist system . The University Grants Commission hurriedly came forward to release various rules and directions to realise this education policy which seriously aimed at transforming the Education as a powerful commodity and transfer it to the monopoly capital / corporate forces . In this process , the UGC released guidelines in September , 2022 , for transforming small private higher educational institutions into multi-disciplinary hubs through mergers and amalgamations . Immediately , in January , 2023 , the UGC hastened to release draft regulations for setting up and operation of foreign universities and higher education institutions in India .

It is a well known fact that our comprador bourgeoisie government for the last three decades has constituted various committees and amended laws to corporatise our education sector so as to hand over it to foreign capital in line with World Bank pressures . On the other , the UGC could formulate various new rules , regulations and guidelines accordingly . However , all this effort will not confine to mere increasing commoditisation of education and raising the profits of corporate forces . The exploitative capitalist system is strongly associated with continuous crises . The capital will search for solutions to the crisis within the framework of their profits . Consequently , every crisis is followed by the intensification of labour exploitation in various new forms . When the existing exploitative relations of production obstructs the development of productive forces , then the mode of 8 production will become untenable and ultimately will be ended . This results in the emergence of new mode of production with new relations of production . This is the dialectic explained by Karl Marx . In the present context , the monopoly capital dictates and directs the highest technical progress in the form of Artificial Intelligence , Robotics , Big Data , financial Management and e-commerce . Therefore , the monopoly capital assumes that it could control the development of productive forces therefore , the monopoly capital presumed that in these conditions , how it is possible for the existing relations of production to hinder the development of productive forces ? Thus , it is under an illusion that there will be no impediment for the continuation of exploitative capitalist system . Contrarily , the crisis is intensifying continuously in the system . In reality , it is impossible to solve the crisis within the vicious circle of exploitative profits of monopoly capital .

The dominant class always searches for various ways and means to divert the attention of youth . They should be kept in dark and ignorance . For this purpose , it is inevitable to transfer education system to monopoly capital / corporate forces . Therefore , it intensively popularised that the quality education will be provided by the monopoly capital so as to ensure great jobs to youth . The corporatised education completely reserved for wealthy because its cost is boundless . However , the youth belonged to poor and middle classes aspire that this costly education will improve their lives and living conditions . With this hope , they take loans , liquidate small assets and run after this costly education . If it is not accessible , it is the responsibility of individuals . Similarly , if they do not get jobs , then they are stupid ,

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brainless and not competitive . Again , the individual is made responsible for the problem of unemployment .

Because , it is popularised that highly qualitative corporate education not at all responsible for the various issues related to world of workers like getting no job or low-level job , no guarantee for job and jobloss . Individually , workers are responsible for all these serious problems . Therefore , individuals will blame themselves and feel that they are unfortunate and not lucky . Thus , they are forced to run after amulets / thayats , tantrik poojas etc . In this process , the working-class consciousness of workers will vanish . This is the main aim of monopoly capital to takeover entire education system . Our comprador bourgeoisie ruling class is making serious efforts in this regard . They leased out our valuable and scarce land for thousand years to corporate forces to establish large sized higher educational institutions as suggested by the Narayana Murthy ’ s Committee . For this purpose , oppressed classes will be sent out from their lands forcibly . All this accentuates our dependency and India will be strengthened as a dependent country . This is the exploitative aim behind the corporatisation of education sector with an accelerated speed and welcoming foreign universities to open up their campuses in India . Our domestic private higher educational institutions will be rapidly merged with these foreign universities which are popularised as a definition of quality . Thus , our entire higher education system will be transferred to foreign capital . Will this high dependency compensate if we popularise our nation as ‘ Vishwa Guru ’?

Class Struggle