Springtime for India’s private sector education heavyweights

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With a mere nine million students from India’s 900,000 primary schools and 133,000 secondaries entering tertiary institutions of learning, quite clearly the state-led education delivery model has been a miserable failure. Hence a broad societal consensus is driving an unstoppable edupreneur-led boom in Indian education

Steep decline of student unions

Almost six decades after independence it’s self evident that the students union movement which discharged a vital role in the freedom struggle has lost its bearings. The idealism that characterised student movements and prompted the Mahatma to co-opt them into the freedom struggle, has evaporated

Last year J&K hosted 200,000 tourists — almost a ten-fold jump over the 27,000 in 2002. And in the current year the state’s tourism minister Ghulam Hasan Mir expects the inflow to top 400,000