Charity begins at home. So will attempts to reach out to the student community to defuse simmering tension between the government and academia.
Newly appointed HRD minister Prakash Javadekar will make his first outreach in this regard from his alma mater in Pune on Sunday.
Javadekar is slated to felicitate his teachers from the famous Ferguson College at a function on Sunday afternoon.
In this context, his speech and message from the famed halls of the college to the student community at large will be closely watched. Significantly, Pune was where one of the longest student protests against the Narendra Modi government - over the appointment of Gajendra Chauhan as FTII chairman - was held.
This is being seen as a clear inflection from the position taken by his predecessor Smriti Irani who has taken a more belligerent stand on a host of issues, including the student protests in JNU and Hyderabad Central University.
A source in the HRD ministry told CNN-News 18 that the other top priority for the minister is the maximum utilisation of the current resources with the government.
Thus soon there could be a renewed emphasis on night schools to provide an opportunity to students who cannot attend classes during the day. Javadekar will be visiting one such school in Bandra in Mumbai on Saturday.
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