Karnataka is the first state to implement NEP.
Bommai also said that the National Entrance-cum-Eligibility Test (NEET) should continue as it is an extension of the Common Entrance Test (CET) that Karnataka and several other states have conducted for those seeking admission in various colleges. He said that Tamil Nadu has no experience of CET and hence it has no right to oppose NEET.
Bommai said, “We are in the 21st century and we do not need Macaulay’s education system. Macaulay is a 200-year-old education system and Europe is demanding change. We need change to meet the needs of the 21st century.” Is.” India Today Conclave here.
The aim of the NEP is not only to “rewrite things wrong”, but also to look to the future, he said, adding that with the emergence of science, technology and artificial intelligence, there is a need to prepare rural children to compete in the international community. the wanted.
The Karnataka Chief Minister said, “When our children are not given the right kind of education and are not very well prepared to face the world, we cannot be spectators. We are the next generation (of the NEP). medium).
He also said that there is nothing wrong in what the RSS has said about the NEP. “RSS views are national ideas. What’s wrong with that?” He asked.
On the opposition parties criticizing the NEP, the BJP leader said that Congress is a part of political history and hence it thinks of history as it suits it.
“He has written history and it is about Nehru and the Gandhi family. He has written history about Congressmen. In the Indian freedom struggle, farmers, workers and many people gave their lives. They are anonymous soldiers but they are never mentioned. Not done. They want to live with false history.”
Asked if his father and former Union HRD minister SR Bommai would have been comfortable with the new NEP, he said, “Times have changed. There was no digital world when I was a father. There were no electronics. Things are now It’s a global village now.”
Bommai further said that he was “part of Macaulay’s education system and I don’t want my grandson to be a part of it. He must keep pace with the most flexible, modern and well equipped qualified depositories of knowledge”.
On opposing NEET in Tamil Nadu, the Karnataka Chief Minister said that there was never any competitive exam in the neighboring state as admission to colleges was done on the basis of marks scored there.
However, Karnataka and other states have CET, where children from all walks of life can compete for any college. He said that in the states where there is no competitive examination, there are many seats in the management quota for the students belonging to the privileged class.
He said, “NEET is not a new thing for us. It is an extension of CET for us. We have not only allowed people of Karnataka, but also people from other states like Bihar to appear in CET. NEET to continue. needed.”
Bommai said that instead of having exams on different dates across states, NEET is a competitive exam, causing inconvenience to the students.
“Tamil Nadu doesn’t have CET experience, so what right does it have (to protest)?” He asked.
On conflicting views on Tipu Sultan in Karnataka, the Chief Minister said that any ruler of the past has good and bad things.
“A very fact is that when Tipu was ruling, not only Hindus but Christians had major conversions. You ask a Mangalorean Christian, what was Tipu. That is the impression he has made… I I don’t agree with them. Have done it with the people of my own state, converted people for my political needs.”
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