As a journalist and having been part of the most successful movement in a democracy and from my experience, all I can say that the best responsibility is to work on education because it is only education that can transform individual, society, nation and the world and the rest can work as a support system to bring desired change. The most important thing is that so far we have not defined the objective of education,” said Dy Chief Minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia while addressing concluding ceremony of All India Education Caravan in the national capital on 29 October.
The deputy Chief Minister emphasised having education ministry because according to him the present setup is meant for human resource development where education is a very little part. It should be completely opposite and we should have education ministry in which Human Resource Development should be a part.
On the present educational system, Sisodia said we are only concerned about the output (infrastructure) and least concerned about the outcome from the given output. We have to change the discourse of education to understand the real meaning and motive of education and that is to make a good human being. If education today can guarantee technological and professional excellence in an individual, it should also guarantee character building where we can say confidently that a student has spent more than 20 years in education will never indulge in corruption or any anti-social activity or crime.
The educational caravan was flagged off at AMU, Aligarh on 17 October and after passing through Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Assam, West Bengal, Odisha, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, MP, and Rajasthan finally concluded in Delhi on 29 October. It was jointly organised by All India Educational Movement (AIEM) and Saiyid Hamid Foundation to create awareness among educationally backward and marginalised sections of society.
The programme was also addressed by Zafarul Islam Khan, Chairman Delhi Minority Commission, Dr. S. Farooq, Amanullah Khan, Chairman and Managing Trustee of Saiyid Hamid Foundation, Prof. Khwaja M Shahid, former pro-vice chancellor, MANUU, Samar Hamid of Hamdard Academy and Educationist Dr. Abdul Qadeer and Urologist Dr. Khurshid Mallick. The programme was conducted by Abdul Rashid and the vote of thanks was delivered by Prof Obaid Iqbal.