India, Sept. 21 -- Mr Nandan Nilekani, Chairman, High Powered Task Force on Reforms in Public Examinations, Ministry of Education, Government of India

Dear Mr Nilekani,

India's education system is in terminal decline because of short-sightedness and corrupt, incompetent academic leadership. The public education system is practically dismantled. Ever since the National Education Policy 2020, introduced unilaterally without discussion and debate in Parliament and consultation with the principal stakeholders and the states, has been implemented, nearly one lakh public schools have been closed across the country, while private schools mushroom, depriving the poor children from the lower economic strata of the constitutional right to quality...