Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said now the minister of the Modi government will teach intellectuals how to do their work.
”Now the self-certified intelligent minister of the wise Prime Minister will tell the intellectuals of the country how to do their work,” Mr Gandhi wrote on his Facebook page.
” Alpvidya bhayankari (Little knowledge is a dangerous thing),” he said.
Mr Gandhi also pasted a picture of Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar.
A member of the Board of Studies of English and Comparative Literature at the Central University of Kerala (CUK) has resigned in protest against the administration’s order asking all departments to prepare “a shelf of projects” in line with “national priorities” for PhD scholars.
The directive came on March 13. The circular was issued at the behest of the Union HRD Ministry, which, at a meeting of vice-chancellors of central universities in December last year, had asked the V-Cs to “discourage research in irrelevant areas”