Inquisitive Indian

[Dipankar @Dipankar_cpiml]

Salam Kolkata! What an emphatic response to (read rejection of) Modi's midnight reel and the scripted break of Sonam's fast! Make no mistake, the movement will only grow stronger and spread wider. No amount of repression or theatrics can stop it.

[Inquisitive Indian @InquisitiveInd6]

@thekiranbedi @AmitShah @PMOIndia @PIB_India @PTI_News What's a valuable tweet for you may not be the best for the society. Perspectives vary.

[Pawan Khera 🇮🇳 ಪವನ್ ಖೇರಾ @Pawankhera]

"रुपया कमजोर नहीं हुआ है, डॉलर मजूबत हुआ" के बाद अब पेश है "पेपर लीक से नुकसान नहीं हुआ है पेपर लीक से दोबारा और अच्छी तैयारी करने का मौका मिला है"

धन्य है जम्बूद्वीप की ये पावन धरा जहां ऐसी तेजस्वी प्रतिभाओं ने जन्म लिया 🙏

[Cockroach is Back @Cockroachisback]

Pure desh ke kaam aa gaya bhai. Hero hai humara bhai..

HERO! 💪🏻

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

"This is called a pellet gun. His eye has been damaged. He cannot see properly from that eye. These are the future of India. Pellet guns have been fired at thousands of such young people. They have been beaten with lathis, assaulted, and attacked" - @RahulGandhi

[Cockroach Janta Party @CJP_for_India]

Abhinay Sir –– "JP Nadda himself is health minister. He is not able to handle his own department. From where did he get audacity to comment on education?"

Dharmendra Pradhan istipha do 😳

[Inquisitive Indian @InquisitiveInd6]

@magadib @CourageousRo Yes, extremely stupid just like you. Discard EVM. 😊

[Maheshwer Peri @maheshperi]

After decades, the conversation is about education and reforms. It will be a travesty if this stops with the resignation of a minister. Families spend 20% of their income educating their children. But once in government, the same people cannot find even 4% for education. Education is a priority when the child is ours—and expendable when the child is someone else’s.

Look at where we have fallen in the last decade:

1. Between 2004–05 and 2013–14, India’s education budget rose from ₹13,098 crore to ₹71,059 crore, recording a CAGR of 21%. In contrast, between 2014–15 and 2023–24, it increased from ₹68,874 crore to ₹1,23,357 crore, but at a much slower CAGR of just 7%. School education growth fell sharply from 22% to 5%, while higher education growth declined from 19% to 10%.

2. Between 2004–14 and 2014–24, total revenue expenditure—excluding interest and grants—rose from ₹57.95 lakh crore to ₹155.57 lakh crore. However, education expenditure increased from only ₹4.05 lakh crore to ₹8.38 lakh crore, causing education’s share of revenue expenditure to fall from 6.98% to 5.39%.

3. Between 2014 and 2024, government colleges grew from 7885 to 7994, a growth of just 1%. In the same period, private colleges went up from 21,750 to 32,513, a growth of 49%. Including the Private aided colleges (which grew at 24%), the total growth has been 35%. Sadly, the growth of government colleges has been by accident and not by design.

4. Similarly, enrolment also took a turn for the worse. Students enrolling in a public institution grew by 21% (134 lacs to 163 Lacs) while those into private grew by 42% (182 lacs t0 357 Lacs).

5. We are closing 25 schools a day. Between 2014 and 2023, India’s population grew by over 12 crore, or 9.3%. Yet, during roughly the same period, the number of government schools declined by 89,441, or 8%.

6. School education is effectively killed and replaced by an entrance exam or a competitive exam. For Ex: CUET is the most useless exam that has been imposed on students in Delhi. Even a topper from Delhi cannot get a seat to study in any college in Delhi unless the student appears for CUET. And every entrance exam is against equity as only those who can afford coaching or have access to coaching succeed. The public schools are death a death blow.

7. Between 2014 and 2026, IIT tuition increased by 122%, At IIM Ahmedabad, the two-year programme fee rose by about 66%, NID and NLU fees also rose substantially by two to three times.

8. While India is seeking its Indian origin scientists working abroad to return back to India, our own research fellowships have been disbanded. The KVPY gave way to INSPIRE Scholarships. In the current year, there are no budgetary allocations for INSPIRE fellowships too.

9. The fees in Private colleges has grown beyond means of most Indians. NEET as an exam is a competition for just about 30,000 Government Medical College seats in the open category! The other 70,000 private seats are a ‘reservation for the rich’ where just about 1% of India can afford to pay the 1.25 Crores fees. All Private colleges cost about 5X to 10X of public institutions.

10. While the Government announced an additional 9911 seats for the current year with much fanfare, only 2400 are in public institutions. 78% of them are in private space and outside the reach of the common man.

11. As per Economic Survey 2025-26 report,
a. 56.2% of professor posts in central universities and other HEIs remain vacant (as on 31-01-2025)
b. 75% of HEIs lack industry readiness
c. About 2 crore adolescents (14-18 years) are out of school.

12. While we have a GER target that is much touted, what we have done is to reduce GER at secondary stage, which is at 68.5% (against NEP target of 100% by 2030). Nearly one third of children are outside the education system, the stage (class 9 to 12) that determines employability and higher education participation.

This conversation took decades coming. I do hope that we don’t stop with the resignation of a minister and demand bigger reforms. This is an opportunity that India cannot let go. This is important to every student, every parent, every young person and to our nation, INDIA.

[Peek TV @PeekTV_in]

#PeekOnGround: ‘I couldn’t stop crying after watching videos of the police beating up students, booked a car and spent ₹25,000 to come here’, said the father of a three-year-old girl who travelled from Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli to participate in the Cockroach Janta Party protest

[Siddharth @SidKeVichaar]

Spare just 4 minutes and watch this video till the very end ♥️

Shekhar Suman has delivered his MOST POWERFUL and EMOTIONAL message in solidarity with the students who were beaten by the Modi government

He fearlessly condemns the brutal treatment of peaceful protesters and makes his stand absolutely clear:
“I stand strongly with all the protesters.”

[Inquisitive Indian @InquisitiveInd6]

Excellent action taken by the Modi government 😂

[Dr Ranjan @DocRGM_]

Breaking: Another Big Scandal

Modi Govt has replaced the Education Secretary who oversaw the NEET leak with IAS officer Naresh Pal Gangwar, whose wife, son and mother received a ₹1.16 crore subsidy from a board under his own department.

Corrupt Replaces the Corrupt

[Bengal Cartel 🔱 @TheBengalCartel]

🚨WATCH : Massive crowd have taken over Sealdah in KOLKATA today in protest against the police brutality on students demanding accountability for the NEET paper leak & resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan.

The voices of dissent are only growing louder.

LONG LIVE REVOLUTION. ✊🏻

[Ankit Mayank @mr_mayank]

‘Modi Chor Hai’ slogans at one of the busiest railway stations in Mumbai, almost entire crowd joined 😂

Finally India is healing 🇮🇳❤️

[अश्विनी सोनी @Ramraajya]

उफ्फ 💔 #GenZProtest

[Siddharth @SidKeVichaar]

🚨 BREAKING:

India’s Supreme Court, the very institution meant to protect the Constitution, has restricted the sharing of court hearing recordings without prior permission

Every day, the “mother of democracy” seems to find something new to ban

Looks like India’s judges are scared of being EXPOSED 🇮🇳

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

दिल्ली पुलिस की लाठी में कीलें लगी थीं लेकिन वीडियो सामने आने पर पुलिस और सरकारी संस्थानों ने इसे फ़ेक बता दिया. देखिये दिल्ली पुलिस की फैक्ट चेक का सच!

#AltNewsVideoReport #AltNews #FactCheck #AltNewsFactCheck

[Inquisitive Indian @InquisitiveInd6]

Mr. Kejriwal would you kindly look into this matter...this is so disturbing...male policemen beating women...Is this not travesty? @ArvindKejriwal @BhagwantMann

[Oppressor @TyrantOppressor]

Welcome to undeclared emergency.

Punjab male policemen are brutally lathi-charging women aged 50 to 60 years.

If you think Arvind Kejriwal is your saviour then the result is in front of you.

[Inquisitive Indian @InquisitiveInd6]

@sudhirchaudhary So big that you might shit in your pants 😂

[Bengal Cartel 🔱 @TheBengalCartel]

Look at how Kolkata Police cracked down on the students protest rally on NEET paper leaks from Sealdah to Esplanade in Kolkata today.