Parallel educational streams: a separate track for each social class/group.

• Parallel educational streams: a separate track for each social class/group.

• Parallel institutional structure.

• Discourse on purpose, relevance and quality replaced by “Basic Learning Needs” in terms of literacy & skills oriented to market needs.

• Gandhi’s concept of Basic Education replaced by an ambiguous category of “Basic Education”.

• State’s obligation to mobilize adequate resources internally is substituted by external resources.

• Abdication of State’s obligation.