Letter to BS: There's an urgent need for reforms in our education system

In Nitin Pai’s column “Education is strategic” (July 13), the writer asks whether the central and state governments realise the urgency to reform our education system. The answer is “no”. In analysing the cases we need to consider the role of political leadership also — one of them is the ability and perspicacity of the prime ministers to grasp the magnitude of poor standards of education and its complexity in the country.
 

Post Jawaharlal Nehru no PM, except Manmohan Singh, has had a strategic focus on our education system leave alone reform it. Yet, it was during Singh’s regime that