Do you see a difference in the way the southern state reacts to education as compared to the northern state?

To some degree, especially in Tamil Nadu and in  Kerala, you see some difference in terms of better school education and other state where you see difference in government schools is Himachal pradesh where you see some higher quality of education but having said that none of these government seem to hold the benchmark that government school has to be like as private school. No one there seems to be thinking so for all decision makers be it politicians or bureaucrats, their own children go into private schools, they go into elite schools, higher education institutions. No one seems to think that the school that my children go to should be the same as the schools of children whose education system I am running. In Fact there is another feature in this, if you were to see one of the reasons for failing the education system is just the amount of corruption invested interest that the political class and the bureaucratic class have had in higher education. I actually think it's the topic for research as if you were to  see the education ministers of different states in the last couple of decades and if you were to see them or their family having some interest in private schools and having financial interest in coaching institutions, etc. you will see a very clear correlation. If you see in delhi, you see the fact that the managing committee of almost every private school has a retired bureaucrat on it and who have links to current bureaucrats. You have owners of many private schools with links to politicians and this is something you will find across the country. So the people who are the guardians of the public education system who have the job of providing high quality education have invested in some private institutions. Now, if I want to save private institutions and I am an education minister, why would I want government schools to improve, I would want government schools to collapse so that more people shift into private institutions. So I think this also needs to be understood.

Atishi Marlena
Indian Politician (AAP), Educator, Political Activist and MLA