Shri Rahul V Karad, the Visionary Educationist, and the Managing Trustee & Executive President, MAEER’s MIT Group of Institutions & Executive President, MIT World Peace University (MIT-WPU)

Shri Rahul V Karad, the Visionary Educationist, and the Managing Trustee & Executive President, MAEER’s MIT Group of Institutions & Executive President, MIT World Peace University (MIT-WPU)  said “As an educationist who strongly believes in holistic, value-based education, I have a lot of expectation from Budget 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the challenges and the lack of resources being faced by our healthcare sector. The solution to this lies at the policy-level. In India, there are only 542 medical colleges and each college can have the highest intake of only 250 students. Medical education is also very expensive in our country. All of this puts a lot of aspiring medical students at a disadvantage. Our government must complement the private sector and we need more privatization in this country so that we can have more medical colleges with a much higher intake of students. This will help meet the huge demand for doctors and nurses in the coming years and make us a healthcare-driven country. We expect the government to allocate funds specifically to boost medical education in India as well as make policy changes that will cater to the future demands in the Indian healthcare system. The pandemic has also pushed the education sector to adapt to online platforms and this year’s budget should invest to further drive the digitization of the education system. We also expect the government to formalize the online education sector in India. Another significant impact on Budget 2021 will be made by the newly introduced National Education Policy (NEP). With the policy’s focus on promoting holistic education that provides students with more options to select subjects from different disciplines, it will require better reach at the grassroots level. We want the government to help reach digital learning and upgrade infrastructure even in the rural and remote areas of our nation so that all Indians can reap the benefits of the new NEP and online education. Last but not the least, all schools and education institutes are focusing on transitioning back their students and teachers to classroom learning and it will be great to have the government lend support and help with the recovery of schools and colleges.”