 For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Hundreds of left-leaning students and teachers took part in a protest demonstration in New Delhi, India against new education policy on November 14. The 55-page document draws a framework to reform education from primary schooling to higher education, including vocational and professional education. Experts point out that the new policy will convert education into commodity and deprive the socially and economically underprivileged students of education. It has been argued that the new education policy will result in the exclusion of millions from attaining quality education. At a time when public education needs more government funding and strengthening, the Bharti Ajanta Party government is trying to undermine the constitutionally mandated right to education. If NEP happens and we are given a one-time grant and then we are supposed to raise our own money through fees and whatever activities the college does and our salary is going to be linked to the fees structure, then I don't think any child from the marginalized section will be able to study. It will be impossible for them and forget about people coming from outside Delhi because those children also need to rent a place, stay there, that itself is 10,000 rupees a month. So and then over and above that if you make it a fee structure in lakhs of rupees, basically the government is saying that only those people looking afford to study should study. The rest of them should just do what their parents were doing. If there's a farmer, the farmer's daughter should or son should just be a farmer. If there's a cobbler, the cobbler's daughter should be a cobbler. I teach in a girls college, so the first thing that is going to happen is the girls are going to withdraw from education because I have a lot of students who are rebelled against the families to study and they can only pay for their tuition because it's so low, it's 10,000 rupees per annum right now which is also high for some people but still it's low. I'm coming from a middle-class family like from my journey from Kerala to Delhi was not that much easy and now I'm here because of my parents and they could spend for my education. If they increase their M1 like this then how will the common people like us can study? Like it's our right and we have the right to study, we have the right to be educated but if these people, if they went down increasing the cost, if they went down increasing the fees like this then it won't be able for us to study. Actually my parents are government employees, they are coming from middle-class families. According to current situation my parents can afford this but if they increase the fees I'm sure that they cannot afford and there are a lot of friends they are coming from low economic background and even now they are not able to afford this cost so I cannot even imagine about the increasing fees. In their claims and in what they actually do there is a great contradiction. If you take my university, JNU for example, they have withdrawn funding from library, they are charging students for hostels, they are trying to hike fees etc but they are spending so much on security, they are spending so much on CCTVs, they have moved to an MCQ online computerised entrance exam which is 100 times the cost of a paper exam and so on. So there is no shortage of resources, it's what they choose to spend it on and a lot of it is spent, I'm afraid a lot of it is also going in corruption. I don't believe that these big deals for all these things are happening without any corruption. So I'm just wondering, I mean obviously they have no intention of taking education seriously at all. They want to destroy public universities.