The heads of two major Christian denominations came together here on Saturday to reject the draft National Education Policy (NEP), 2016, being circulated by the Ministry of Human Resource Development for comments.
Rev. George Anthonysamy, Archbishop of the Catholic diocese of Madras-Mylapore and Rev. George Stephen, Bishop of the Church of South India’s Chennai diocese, were present at a demonstration organised at Chepauk against the draft NEP.
“This protest will not end today; the fight will go on. We will meet Governor K. Rosaiah either on Monday or Tuesday with our objections and will also meet various political party leaders,” Rev. Anthonysamy told journalists.
Representatives said that the Catholic church operates 3,000 educational institutions in Tamil Nadu alone while the CSI runs 16,000 such institutions across four states and Puducherry.
Saying that the draft is against the secular nature of the country, the organisers said that they will now draft a parallel document which celebrates the federal structure of the country as well as its pluralistic traditions.
