"it is not that the government is not aware of the need for primary education. Please ask yourself what another petition will serve. What we need is the involvement of each and every one who is capable of signing such petitions from the comforts of the house to visit the government schools and see what is happening. How many of us would like to send our children to those schools? Even the figure of 67% literacy is highly exaggerated number. Many of these "literate" can at the most put their signatures on the paper.
We need direct involvement of professionals and not signing petitions which may produce some democratically vibrant countries. India has democracy no doubt, but it is not one where such petitions produce any results. The signatories of such petitions do not vote and it is the illiterates who know the value of the votes (may be in a wrong way) vote.
I know not many would like to hear what I am writing. But this is a reality in India."
Dr. Shenoy has been working for India's development, including consumer movements and fighting against corruption, since 1987. He is an author of books and has published hundreds of articles on various topics in Indian newspapers. One of them appeared as a cover story in the Industrial Economist titled Million Mutinies to revolutionise India's education sector.
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