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Who should be blame for indiscipline in the University – The students, The Teachers, The Politicians or The Government?
The Students:-
- The responsibility for growing lawlessness and indiscipline among our university students for some time now can be attributed to the students themselves.
- It is they who resort to violence, boycott of examination, molestation of teachers and even vice chancellors and strikes to force the university administration to accept even their unjust demands.
- Once famous universities of India like those of Allahabad, Varanasi, Lucknow, Aligarh etc. have lost their name and pre-eminence because of student's unrest in them.
- As long as as a student is enrolled in any course of the university, he should not be allowed to carry on any political activity whatsoever.
- They come to the university to receive higher education.Under the pretext of taking part in politics, they indulge in acts that are not becoming of them.
- The main culprit for student indiscipline in universities is the students unions. It has been observed that mostly spoilt brats of the rich and powerful join these unions for self aggrandizements.
- The best option would be to have student committees in their place to suggest measures in students genuine welfare. Their members should be appointed by the governing council of the university on the basis of merit and the element of election should be done away with.
The Teachers:-
- Students are easily influenced by their teachers. Therefore, the teachers have a great responsibility to maintain their dignity and status. But we are pained to witness just the opposite in most of the cases.
- In order to gain cheap popularity, among the students, our teachers mix up too freely with them and thus lose their authority over them.
- By holding only the students responsible for growing discipline in our universities we are absolving the teachers from the obligation to guide properly and have a check on their students.
- The reason why our students are recalcitrant and flout the authority of even the vice chancellors, not to speak of the teachers, is that our teachers are no longer effective and fail to enforce discipline among the students as a community.
- Moreover, teachers would hold informal talks with the students to guide them on their careers. Such sincere and selfless service on the part of the teachers kept even the thought of lawlessness and rowdyism at bay. It goes to prove, therefore, that the teachers alone are to blame for the incident of growing discipline among our university students.
The politicians:-
- It is really strange that while in the opposition, our politicians cry hoarse over student problems, but once they are in the government, they forget them altogether.
- In most of the cases the leaders of opposition parties who owe their allegiance to foreign ideologies and masters try to impose their line of thinking by talking recourse to creating discontent among the masses.
- Such leaders do not have the guts to face the Government inside the Parliament or State Legislatures, or to convince the electorate by cogent arguments.
- The blame for growing indiscipline in the university students goes to the shrewd and wily politicians – neither the students, nor the teachers.
The Government:-
- The government is duty bound to see to it that our student's impressionable years are not wasted in any wrongful activities and they follow the path of righteousness.
- Besides, the government should desist from using them as tools to serve its narrow ends.
- They should be left alone to devote their time and energies to their studies, so that upon completing their studies they may decide for themselves the line or profession to follow.
- The present system of education is outdated, hackneyed and irrelevant to the needs of modern India.
- It lays stress on academic performance to the exclusion of any vocational or technical training that can equip students to be self reliant after passing out of the universities.
- We can blame neither the students, nor the teachers, nor the politicians for growing indiscipline among our students.
- The government would do well to bring in legislation to curtail the wide autonomy enjoyed by our university unions.
- Only the government has the power to exercise control over them or disband them but it does not do so for obvious reasons.