On Wednesday (July 9, 2025), in India, the silent crisis in higher education, which leads a deep, distinguishing academic and former main economic advisor Deepak Nayyar, presenting a lecture of 2025 Bg Dehmukh on “University Education Crisis: Disruption of the Presence and Future”. File.
On Wednesday (July 9, 2025), in India, the silent crisis in higher education, which leads a deep, distinguishing academic and former main economic advisor Deepak Nayyar, presenting a lecture of 2025 Bg Dehmukh on “University Education Crisis: Disruption of the Presence and Future”. Nayyar, who held the government of Narendra Modi responsible for the crisis in the Higher Education Sector, said that since 2014, the period has witnessed a significant increase in political intrusion and government intervention at universities since 2019.
“In India, there is a silent crisis in India, which is deep. It is visible. Educational opportunities for school leavers are simply not enough and those that exist are not good enough. Pockets Excellency are the results of a huge reservoir of talent and selection processes.
It seems that the challenges faced by higher education in India require massive expansion to educate much larger numbers without dilution of academic standards, said Prof. Nayyar. “In fact, it is equally important to improve average quality. What is more in terms of approach must be much more inclusive and needs some institutions, each with a certain critical amount that is examples of excellence, like the best in the world.
The political intervention and intervention of the government gained strength after the general elections in 2014, when the party Bharatiya Janata (BJP) gained the absolute majority in parliament and Mr Modi took over the post as Prime Minister. “The last five years since 2019 has witnessed rapid acceleration in this process. It has now reached a phase where the future of public universities in India is at serious risk, not if the gap the gap,” he said, adding that the decline in public universities in India was inevitable.
“There are two apparent manifestations of this developing reality. First there is a visible emergence of institutionalized control mechanisms that propose what universities can or cannot do. Second, appointment at universities that would only be in the university area is increasingly influenced if it is not formed by political motivation. “Now, admission processes have been centralized by the National Test Agency. The justification of such centralization is questionable and defective. Why is centralization? There is no transparency, there is no responsibility in this process,” said prof. Nayyar.
The selection process for the faculty members was manipulated through the purpose of selecting experts of the subject, mostly not qualified for this role, he said. “There would be no exaggeration that the appointment of a faculty at universities and universities is increasingly controlled by RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) ideologies and BJP preference in politics rather than talents or merit,” said Prof. Nayyar.
Published – 10 July 2025 12:43
