Congress slams govt over rising education costs, says youth demand action

The Congress on Sunday said the Jantar Mantar and other protests in recent weeks have had proximate causes in a rigged exam system but the agony and anger of youth and their parents have more fundamental causes of both accessibility and affordability revealed by household expenditure data.
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said the youth and their parents are crying out for remedial action on accessibility and affordability.
"The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) has very recently done a detailed analysis based on its household expenditure data between 2014/15-2025/26.

The conclusions are stark.

Education costs are rising substantially faster than household income.

Households are allocating a considerably larger share of their income towards education.
"Private tuition has emerged as one of the fastest-growing components of household expenditure on education.

School and college fees have recorded sustained growth throughout the last decade, consistently outpacing ..