ABSTRACT
The current crisis is not in terms of student explosion, or finances or learning deficit, or underachievement or quality and relevance or employability or lack of teachers, or teacher absenteeism or woeful infrastructure or the decline of institutions. The present crisis includes all these, but is much more; it is, essentially in terms of policy. The current education policy reflects an absence of a long-term coherent policy for educational development. Such non-intervention, which can be described as laissez-faireism is the root cause of the present crisis. Now the people have reached a point where the people have come to believe that this non-seriousness in education policy would go on for an indefinite period and policy implementation would continue to be postponed interminably. In the Eleventh and the Twelfth Five Year Plans, the people have the clearly stated objective of inclusive growth. So it proposed a package of legislative policies which are right now pending in the Parliament.
