The government is planning to constitute a National Commission for Enforcing Right to Education. Prominently-Commission, right and education perturbs me and probably to many of you. There have been so many commissions in India on different subjects since her independence that the first impression it creates on its people is that it would take not less than a period of 2 years to submit its reports and recommendations and by the time there are always as have been in the past, significant changes in the conditions of life affecting the proposal validity.

Secondly, the herculean task of submission of reports and recommendations are often tarnished to bits and pieces while they are implemented through the autocratic terminology of approval and disapproval. It sounds as if the stupendous task was handed over to some unauthorised or incompetent people.

When the government talks about rights and its awareness it just sounds that the government intent to ignore the fact that the existing vast population of this magnificent peninsula are not well aware of their fundamental rights! With every second name of an Indian in the world's Illiteracy chart, it is a mockery to even talk about awareness of child rights to children when about 63% of the people of this independent India are not aware of their fundamental rights owing to their illiteracy.

Oh! when I look at the status of education it is all the more disturbing. Education is the most powerful instrument for an all round progress of the nation.... are some of the words excerpted out of one of the national commissions on education in India.

The government views so much of resource-crisis that though the most developed countries in the world encashes it for their developments, the governments of India had always vested their interest in appointing National commission on education with either a scientist heading it or else a person of mass popularity. Not more than 10% of the teacher's community fully involves itself due to political restrictions and those genuine resources-India's truly devoted educational unsung giants' speechlessness echoes ineffectively.

The government, governance and the governed are still a long way to go in redefining the rudimentary ideas and plans of planning.

However, it may be naive to presume that there has been no development or there are less number of people with wisdom and knowledge. There are there shall be. The government can certainly march with its plan for this commission but with a practical vision of its impact.
(this is a comment given by me on the Government of India's proposal published in the www.igovernment published on 27 March 08)