"Going Abroad New Disease Among Children": Vice President's Lament
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Education morphing into a business is not good for the future of the nation, underscored the Vice President.
Going abroad, that's the new disease afflicting the children of the country, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar said Saturday, lamenting what he called is both a "forex drain and brain drain". एक नई बीमारी और है बच्चों में - विदेश जाने की।बच्चा उत्साहपूर्वक विदेश जाना चाहता है, उसको नया सपना दिखता है; लेकिन कोई आकलन नहीं है कि किस संस्था में जा रहा है, किस देश में जा रहा है।अंदाजा है कि 2024 में, लगभग 13 लाख छात्र छात्राएं विदेश गए। उनके भविष्य का क्या होगा उसका… pic.twitter.com/BoPZlNglnq
The commercialisation of education, said the Vice President, is adversely impacting its quality which is not good for the future of the nation.
"There is another new disease among children - that of going abroad. The child enthusiastically wants to go abroad, he sees a new dream; but there is no assessment of which institution he is going to, which country he is going to," said Mr Dhankhar speaking at a function organised by a private educational institute in Rajasthan's Sikar.
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