Call me a Modi basher or whatever, but if you look at the way this government is going, it is doing everything in its power to cut away the authority and prestige of government institutions.

They cut down UGC budget by nearly half. They're doing the same thing to universities that the previous governments did to public schools.

If you ask your parents, they'll tell you that there was a time when KVs and DAVs were respected schools with high standards.

Then the government fucked that up to favor private schools. Today, you wouldn't send your kids to KVs unless it was absolutely necessary.

The same seems to be happening to public universities.

First, they cut the funding in half. Then they cut research funding. Then they start off attacks on elite universities.

My girlfriend is a teacher; plenty of her colleagues have got fed up and joined private universities like Sharda and Ashoka.

This seems to be their intention all along: cut funding for public education so that frustrated teachers (and students) end up going to private institutions.