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Don't agree with India's policy on Myanmar: Amartya Sen | Sharing the dais with the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen, on Tuesday said that he did not agree with India's policy on Myanmar. Speaking
at a symposium on the 'Centrality of Literacy' here, Sen said: "I don't agree
with the Indian policy on Burma. Sen's comments come a week after the prime minister
and Myanmar's military ruler General Than Shwe signed several bilateral pacts.
On the issue of increasing Naxal violence, Sen said it is disrupting school education
and was completely in contrast to the thinking and vision of Chinese Communist
leader Mao-tze Dong. Demonstrating his cerebral prowess with mesmerising articulation,
Sen said education is the cornerstone of development, without which progress in
the social and economic realms was not possible. "In my view, the imposing
tower of misery today that rests in the heart of India has its sole foundation
in the absence of education. Caste division, religious conflicts, aversion to
work, precarious economic condition all centre on this simple fact," he said.
Reiterating his critically acclaimed and widely accepted theory of human capability
expansion, Sen said the Right to Education is a welcome step that could greatly
boost individual skills to generate numerous avenues of development. "It (Right
to Education) offers a much awaited social recognition of the centrality of literacy
as a basic human capability. There are many more actions to be taken and the challenges
ahead of making India universally educated is still quite exacting, demanding
organizational alterations, as well as financial commitment," he added. In his
address, Dr. Singh said a lot more needed to be done by the government to achieve
universal and quality education across the country. "Many affirmative actions
for the welfare and empowerment of the marginalized sections of our country have
got consolidated through the spread of the literacy movement," he added. He also
assured that financial barriers would not bar the vision of providing free and
compulsory education to every Indian child. "It is our government's commitment
that paucity of funds will not be allowed to limit the spread of literacy and
education in our country. It is on the foundation of this fiscal commitment and
political resolve that we went to Parliament and added a new Fundamental Right
to our Constitution - the Right to Education," he said. |
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