The National Education Policy (NEP)-2020 and the call for “Indian ethos” is old fashioned and regressive and not going to help build a modern education system free from blind beliefs and superstition, opined Freethought Party of India (FPI). The FPI is quite clear that there is no such verbiage as “Indian ethos” in the entire text of the Constitution of India. The FPI is quite clear that all the concepts of Hindu Sanatan Dharm will come into play under the term of “Cultural Preservation”, the term that has figured in the first paragraph of the Introduction Chapter of the NEP and the rest will be formulated under the banner of “Indian ethos”. In other words, the BJP-led NDA Government wants that all Indians should carry on the heavy load of all the blind beliefs that have been there in India since time immemorial.
"It means that all educational institutions in the “Hindu-Dominated” Republic of India will be modelled on the pattern of Utkal University that has already 22 Hindu temples in its campus. The students will have no strength of individual mind to revolt against religious structures inside their academic institutions because they come to study to get a degree that would help them to get jobs and if they revolt at all they would be “victimized” and their academic career will go to dogs," said FPI general secretary B Ramchandra CST Voltaire.
