FW Correspondent
New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal accused the British of destroying the Indian education system and turning it into an assembly-line of clerk making, as he called on students to train to become job givers, not seekers.
Arvind Kejriwal made the remark while addressing the inauguration ceremony of the east Delhi campus of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, during which he was interrupted by slogans allegedly being raised by BJP workers.
Arvind Kejriwal dedicated the new campus to the country and termed it one of the best the country has.
“It has excellent facilities and in terms of architecture, it can be counted as one of the best campuses in the country. This campus will accommodate 2,500 students. It will benefit the economy of the area around it with the opening of shops and generation of employment opportunities,” he said, “There was no campus like this in east Delhi. We prepared a model for school education where even those without money can get their child educated. Now, we have to focus on higher education,” he added.
The CM slammed British bureaucrat Lord Macaulay for creating an education system in the 1830s that still exists, merely to churn out educated clerks.
“They destroyed the education system of India to prepare clerks. We didn’t make changes in this system. We have to do something to give education that provides employment.”
“On this campus, students will be taught automation, design, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data management, innovation. This is the demand of the technological world,” he said.
Arvind Kejriwal said that the vice-chancellor of every university should be responsible for getting students jobs, as he stressed on students to become employers and not go after jobs which are in scarcity in the country.
