Big leaders no longer emerging from student community: CJI
The Hindu
“Youngsters are now sent to residential schools, and they lead a cloistered life”
Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana said on Thursday that no “big leader” had emerged from the student community in the past few decades, in a country where students were the “face of the Independence movement”.
“This appears to be correlated with diminished participation of students in social causes after liberalisation,” said the CJI, who was once a student leader himself.
The Chief Justice lamented that students were sent into “exile” to private residential schools and coaching centres, where they lived a cloistered life without knowing the truths about the society around them. The talents in them were snuffed out in the suffocating atmosphere of these establishments which resembled prisons.