Corruption indignation Kudos for a well-written cover story exposing the unchecked corrupt practices destroying Indian education (EW February). I agree with Dr. Seetharamu when he says that corruption in Indian education has been allowed to fester and multiply because of negligence of the Central and state governments. The huge scams in teacher appointments in government schools and malpractices in the TET (Teacher Eligibility Test) highlighted by you are an indicator of the deep rot in the system. How can we expect delivery of quality education when teachers purchase their posts by paying bribes to fraudulently qualify as teachers in government schools? Stringent legislation and punishment is the need of the hour to curb the corruption menace. Sandeep Balakrishnan on e-mail Declare zero academic year I agree with your Special Report proposing 2021-22 be declared a zero academic year (EW February). As you rightly state, this is the best option for pre-primary and primary students. Remedial education makes no sense especially for pre-primary children who have never attended school. If 2021-22 is not declared a zero year, the pressure and stress our children will experience while trying to catch up with two years of lost learning will be intense. Online education has severe limitations and there’s no denying the enormous academic loss in all schools. Peer interaction, group studies, personality development, physical and mental well-being, all require on-campus schooling. There is no time to waste. Declare 2021-22 a zero academic year to save our children’s future. Chaitra Raju on e-mail Commendable mission Edupreneur Shveta Raina’s endeavour to prepare students’ professional competencies and workplace skills is truly inspirational (‘People’, EW February). Her mission is commendable because for decades, Indian higher education has failed to address the issue of student employability. I wish her all success! Nikunj Shah, Ahmedabad Severe displeasure We would like to express our severe displeasure with the ranking given in the recent EW India School Rankings 2021-22 (EW November 2021) to S.N. Vidya School, Ambala. Your survey team has ranked our school #6 in Ambala, #22 in Haryana state and all-India #178 among co-ed day schools. This is totally unacceptable. We want to know on what basis your esteemed magazine has published these rankings. I request you to share the source of your information as our reputation as a 37-year-old school has been severely dented. Neelinderjeet Kaur Sandhu, Director-principal, S.N. Vidya School, Ambala The EducationWorld India School Rankings surveys are based on the perceptions of over 11,000 knowledgeable sample respondents who rate India’s Top 3,000 schools on 14 parameters of school education excellence. (Please see EW November 2021 p.34) – Editor Disappointing omission We are readers of EducationWorld for the past several years now. It is with great interest that we read your annual EW India School Rankings issue. But each time, it disappoints us to find no mention of our school — Army Public School, Barrackpore. Sited in the country’s oldest cantonment on the outskirts of Kolkata, our CBSE-affiliated school has an enrolment of 3,724 students with outstanding…
