Jammu, March 13 -- CPI(M) Central Committee Member and MLA Kulgam, M Y Tarigami, on Wednesday cautioned the government over the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) in Jammu and Kashmir, stating that the entire crux of the policy is to commercialize education and deny poor students the right to knowledge.
Tarigami, while participating in the ongoing discussion on the budget presented recently by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in the legislative assembly, said that the much-hyped NEP is fraught with dangerous consequences and that the elected government in Jammu and Kashmir must remain extremely cautious in its implementation.
"It is being claimed here that the New Education Policy will be actively implemented and strengthen...