Elite Must Share Burden

The point raised by none other than the Chief Minister of J&K Omar Abdullah himself that the condition of the government schools cannot improve until the elected representatives and senior government officers enroll their kids in these institutions is nothing but an alibi, that can be explained with ease using famous Hindi adage, ‘Na Nau Man Tel Hoga Na Radha Nachegi’, which in this context means neither the aforementioned elite class will send their children to government schools nor these schools will see any improvement. If Omar Abdullah is so clear about this condition, who is stopping him from issuing an order mandating the elite class of elected representatives and top rated officers to admit their kids in government schools. The logic given by the CM that if the children of elected representatives and senior officers are enrolled in government schools that have a 25-year-old blackboard, the same would be replaced with a whiteboard, digital board, and other facilities in no time seems to be little weird because he is the head of the Union Territory and it is under his domain to change the archaic edifice in the government schools and improve the health of all these educational institutions, which only needs his signatures or verbal orders but he being a shrewd politician is complicating things by putting a condition, which he knows, will never be fulfilled, making it amply clear that the stakeholders—the poor strata of society will have to send their children to schools with dilapidated edifice and indifferent staff, leaving their future on the mercy of God. Strangely, the CM has admitted that there are lacunae on the part of his government and many in the past also, but the solution suggested by the man incharge of the union territory is quite illogical because instead of starting initiatives to improve the government schools infrastructure and providing adequate training to the faculty of these educational institutions to tread in the right manner the condition placed by him tells a different story that either he knows nothing about governance or he is an adroit politician, who knows how to misled the public by entangling them through selecting right words at the right moment and chiseling them to his own convenience.