Educational qualification for Politicians

Ruling a country is the most important job one can perform as a citizen. If any other job in this country requires educational qualification, then person ruling a country is also required the same. But, in my opinion, to conduct an exam on certain subjects or setting a minimum qualification will not serve the purpose. The persons who are passionate about the dream to rule the country has to work hard to reach there, So it should certainly be the best people who have to get the job of directing this country. Right now those best people are the CIVIL service toppers. The personality trait to take responsibility and work hard are proven by these citizens. Let the civil service toppers be trained for governance. In fact, they already are. But under the current system, they act as puppets for the illiterate ministers! Why do we have to elect an irresponsible school drop out to direct our best students?Let The civil service toppers rule this country. Even to make it more efficient and transparent, the minimum qualification to contest for election should be a 5-year experienced collector and he has to compete for the place where he has served as a collector. Thereby we are already assured that they are trained in governance, they are getting practical experience and enough time to study the current situation of the country. They prove the efficiencies through the governance in the existing position. The voters also will get ample time and opportunity to assess their candidates and understand his capabilities of governance. Thereby we can provide a new system to filter the best candidates at the stage before ruling the country itself.

There is another blood sucking factor in the existing system; The political parties, whose primary objective is to oppose any decision taken by the other party (no matter how good a decision is for the country). In order to achieve the intended efficiency and independence in governance, all political parties should be dismissed from the country. Instead, there should be only two groups in the governance team. One group of the selected candidates who rules, another group of experts from each field who act as an advisory board to the ruling group. The moment we eliminate political parties from ruling us, we vote for the persons who has proven their efficiency in their governance to serve the country which is going to save India from many misfortunes that she has to suffer, just by the existence of political parties.

The main reason people disagree with the concept that an educational person will do better in ruling than an uneducated is based on the inefficiencies exist in our educational system. The existing system fails to generate responsible patriotic citizens and replaced values with money. We now follow the system created by the Brtish who has done it with a purpose of creating shame about India in every child\'s subconscious mind and create respect for the British. That is the main reason why the system now creates students whose ambition is to go abroad. Without patriotism and values, to expect people to work for the upliftment of their society and their country might not be achieved.

Once the society learns to respect people with values than people with money, then eventually people will lose the habit of doing anything for money which is the basic reason for the current situation in India, like any other developing country.

If we have to alter the constitution to save our country, It is high to do so As we have experienced that the existing system is proven to destroy India day by day.

Ruling a country is the most important job one can perform as a citizen. If any other job in this country requires educational qualification, then person ruling a country is also required the same. But, in my opinion, to conduct an exam on certain subjects or setting a minimum qualification will not serve the purpose. The persons who are passionate about the dream to rule the country has to work hard to reach there, So it should certainly be the best people who have to get the job of directing this country. Right now those best people are the CIVIL service toppers. The personality trait to take responsibility and work hard are proven by these citizens. Let the civil service toppers be trained for governance. In fact, they already are. But under the current system, they act as puppets for the illiterate ministers! Why do we have to elect an irresponsible school drop out to direct our best students?Let The civil service toppers rule this country. Even to make it more efficient and transparent, the minimum qualification to contest for election should be a 5-year experienced collector and he has to compete for the place where he has served as a collector. Thereby we are already assured that they are trained in governance, they are getting practical experience and enough time to study the current situation of the country. They prove the efficiencies through the governance in the existing position. The voters also will get ample time and opportunity to assess their candidates and understand his capabilities of governance. Thereby we can provide a new system to filter the best candidates at the stage before ruling the country itself.

There is another blood sucking factor in the existing system; The political parties, whose primary objective is to oppose any decision taken by the other party (no matter how good a decision is for the country). In order to achieve the intended efficiency and independence in governance, all political parties should be dismissed from the country. Instead, there should be only two groups in the governance team. One group of the selected candidates who rules, another group of experts from each field who act as an advisory board to the ruling group. The moment we eliminate political parties from ruling us, we vote for the persons who has proven their efficiency in their governance to serve the country which is going to save India from many misfortunes that she has to suffer, just by the existence of political parties.

The main reason people disagree with the concept that an educational person will do better in ruling than an uneducated is based on the inefficiencies exist in our educational system. The existing system fails to generate responsible patriotic citizens and replaced values with money. We now follow the system created by the Brtish who has done it with a purpose of creating shame about India in every child\'s subconscious mind and create respect for the British. That is the main reason why the system now creates students whose ambition is to go abroad. Without patriotism and values, to expect people to work for the upliftment of their society and their country might not be achieved.

Once the society learns to respect people with values than people with money, then eventually people will lose the habit of doing anything for money which is the basic reason for the current situation in India, like any other developing country.

If we have to alter the constitution to save our country, It is high to do so As we have experienced that the existing system is proven to destroy India day by day.

Education and Training Is Required For Almost Everything That a human does, be it cleaning, marketing, cooking, singing, acting or even Sex education. Off-course lots of things can be done without training and education but to do it as good as it can be done, we need education and training.

That's why there are music/dance academy's, Drama schools, engineering colleges, home science, and sex education.

Suppose there are 3 people, lets call them A, B & C.

Person "A" has empathy and some knowledge about diseases and there cures and he is very dedicated to help other people, overall a very good and noble human being.

Person "B" is not so emphatic, and lacks the nobleness but is a certified physician.

Person "C" Gets a serious sickness/disease, Who would you think he should consult. ?

Assuming Person C is sane rational person there is a very less possibility that he will go to person A,

He might choose a 3rd person who is specialist in the area of his sickness/disease.

Now, Coming to the politician part,

When I listen to people's argument when they want to justify that education is not necessary to be a politician there are almost no logical consistency, they often use words like empathy, motivation, dedication, feeling, decision making capability but seldom do the use words like skill, knowledge, evaluation etc. I mean don't they see the flaws in there reasoning?

Even a 5 year old has empathy, motivation, dedication, feeling and decision making capability in fact he/she makes a decision when he decides to eat a packet of chips over vegetables or vice versa.

The reason is, that we don't care about anything unless its effects are immediate or significant to us or both.

When it comes to politics, unless a politician commits a very significant crime, we ignore it. We don't understand or maybe don't care enough to understand that every single decision made by our politicians affects all of us in one way or other however small and insignificant it may be.

Lets get to the real world now,

If any one of us has a million dollar company and we have to choose a leader. Would we choose in the same manner that we choose our politician ? off-course not, because we know the decision made by the person we choose will have a serious effect on our company. So what will we do. We will look for the most qualified person for the job that we can get in our budget. But for the politicians. We just don't care.

Try to answer this simple question and you will get the point.

Why do we need/prefer a leader with most knowledge and experience to manage a company but when it comes to manage a whole country/state we have no set qualification requirement, even a 12th pass person with no understanding of management, political science, our constitution/law or even our national anthem can be elected,

Knowing is one thing, but knowing how that knowledge can be used is entirely different, its the difference between a scientist and a teacher, its a difference between a mechanic and an engineer.

So, yes. ! I strongly believe that all our politicians should have a certain level of qualification, just like you need to have physics, chemistry and math/Biology to pursue engineering/medicine science as a career because we all know those are the basics that one should have to be a good and efficient engineer/doctor/scientist/surgeon etc.

First of all, it's great to give an opportunity to talk about the most debating topic- Why educational qualification is necessary or why not.

So, firstly, I am here to give my point of view why educational qualification is necessary,

According to my opinion, a leader is a soul of the country, & if they are competent, then the country will lead to progress. It's a need of an hour for a leader to be educated because this world needs like them.

We all know a leader can run a country, but if a leader isn't competent or able to understand the nature of politics, then how they will run the country. Yes, that's right when some people argue over this line and say that leader must have an administrative skill & love for his country by doing the work for the welfare of the nation, so then they're not a need for a leader to be educational qualified, but let me clear this perspective, if we are talking about the competency of a leader, that they don't need to be educationally qualified to run a country, or to frame a policy then let me ask only one question why we need an IAS, IPS OR IFS officers etc to be educationally qualified? Is then there necessary that they also have to be educationally qualified instead of the fact that they also have the same level of work as the leader they also frame the policies likely as a leader, then why? Answer it. I am waiting.

Secondly, we are aware of the different ministries we have, & for those leaders are appointed, but if the leaders are not able to understand the work of the particular ministry then how will they help to lead our nation especially at this transforming system?

That's why we see more successful work for a ministry when there is a competent leader who knows the standard & knowledge of the work. We have different kinda example of it, were we successful land the name of our nation due to their efforts, administrative skills & knowledge.

That's why it's a need of an hour.

Thirdly, we listen to the fact that if there is no barrier on educational qualification we have no barrier the people to run the election, which means then many will lead a country especially those which have a desire to run or change the country. Yeah somewhat I think this is correct, but I wanted to know one thing if they are not knowledge enough,

Then, what we say about this?

According to me a desire to change is equally important plus the knowledge & knowledge and desire is a likely same as a double facet of a coin, & both are equally important.

Fourthly, and lastly, I am not pointing anybody or anything, but we are seeing everywhere that some famous persons are coming to a particular party, & highlighting not surprisingly they win because of the fact how famous they are, & the public vote them not of the fact what they can do, but the fact because they are famous. , & acc to me this is wrong because maybe they have knowledge about policies, or maybe not, point of fact,

If they are aware of the policies, aware of the ministries, aware of the work, well good but if they aren't then who will suffer due to this?

Thankyou.

It's fine, we are very much aware of the literacy rate in our country, not very appreciable, I accept, it needs decades to reach a high percentage and politicians are people that are selected from amongst us and so we cannot expect them to b super educated.

But I believe as we have reached a stage where at least half of the people are literate, taking into consideration 60% literacy rate of our country, so can't we expect our leaders to be among at least those half of the people? And here someone would pop up a question that what about places that have no literacy % at all, so having educational qualification would mean that this particular place will have no representative? But well, why no? Can't a qualified person from another state stand for as a representative? Where is the problem? And if someone would ans, the problem would be the particular person not being a member of that society will fail to understand and solve the problem of the people, then for that matter I want to say that all such points lie down secondary because people can b trained to live and analyze at a place to research and sort problems of a place and such a person would easily win the trust of people as well be it anyone from even outside their territory. But primarily what is required to have that analytical mind? Education, for sure. Education does not only mean bookish knowledge, rather it stands for the capacity to be a civilised human and that comes when you have been a student.

I remember my teacher telling us that, "if a person can be a good student, he will be good at every role of his life. ".

I know how much the lectures on Mahatma Gandhi has inspired me and the stories of Abraham lincoln encouraged me to look for the betterment of others and to develop within me a conscience. Most of the politicians or representatives of our state lack that thing, when a women is raped they point a finger at the victim, when there is riot they speak of protecting their community and not everyone, they fail to bring up secularism and its importance, they fail to address the need of fundamental rights some even do not know what are these rights.

I just urge that leave a part educational qualification if that is so unacceptable condition but at least make these politicians sit for a test before they are selected to judge their thinking, skills, common sense and psychological status. All this means alot to be a leader.

INDIA - Independent nation declared in august.
India got it's independence in the year 1947 and constitution was enacted in the year 1950.Constitution of India consisting of 395 articles & 12 schedules at present.

Politicians are those group of people who serves the entire nation and plays an important role in developing our country INDIA.
In India Political leaders role is not meant for serving their duties and responsibilities but has become an open competition in our societies for their independent as well as party fame. Like everybody knows politicians make vastly unrealistic promises before elections but as soon as the party wins promises get crushed under the foots along with their pamphlets seeking votes.

There is no article in the constitution nor any guidelines mentioning the education qualifications of the politicians who would rule India and it's states. It is predominant to look into this matter because India is still labeled as developing country.

I consider education is must to contest in an election because education will provide a clarity to understand our system. It helps us to pin point exactly the flaw in our system and gives a remedy to improve the society. Moreover, education is the prime factor to understand ethics, morality, innovation etc. Widespread of knowledge will, in turn, be cause for better democracy.
In INDIA majority of cabinet ministers are holding their positions in those fields in which they have no knowledge if we look into their past experiences or education qualification.

Note that, As per the rules If a Indian student opts arts field in his matriculation he cannot apply for the science field areas. However a person can become a cabinet minister of any field whether it is of civil aviation , consumer affairs, chemicals ,etc. even if he has not gone to school a single day of his life.

A politician should only rule the country when they are enough educated and have a strong political knowledge.
Come out and find a solution. That solution will have it's own majesty and generations will remember you!

I strongly condemn the practice of electing illiterate politicians. We Indians talk about rights, freedom, honour, education, equality etc, but when it comes to electing a right person to support our voice, then we foolishly support a person with the criminal background or a person who runs his political chariot on the basis of caste, religion, and gender. If we expect our parliament and legislative assemblies to promote good quality of education then we should put some right people to understand the concern. It would be an over expectation from an Illiterate MP or MLA who has no idea about fundamental rights, dates, constitution, etc. And if has no idea about his/her country, culture, values then how could he/she debate in parliament on various issues of law and policies. Over 70% of the politicians in Parliament and legislative assemblies do not give input while debates and question hour sessions because most of them either elected by playing on the religion or caste. How can we even dream for a better India by giving the command of our nation in such hands those who can't even speak proper Hindi and English in India or in international platforms? Fighting for the right to education for the children is good but why don't we implement it on our politicians. Our 5 years children are not going to run this country just after school. I am not saying that illiterate people are good politicians but the ratio of illiterate cum good politicians is very less. We can't deny that education broadens the mental horizon, it sparks the prudence and vigilance of a brain, that is why education is so much important. If we look behind then our nation had more educated politicians during independence in comparison to todays' scenario. Now you decide that whether we are progressing or ruining our nation.

Just think about a scenario, wherein a few people are queued up for a job interview for an Automobile Company's Engineer's post. Out of the lot, One is uneducated illiterate but has an experience of over 10 years of running his own Automobile garage, and the other one is an Automobile Engineer from One of the Top Engineering institutes in the country with a first class degree. Who will the company Hire? As per my Opinion, Although the illiterate person has an experience in the same field, but due to lack of education, his vision, capacity to learn more and the skills required to work in a corporate sector is lacking. He certainly will have to work much harder in the job to reach higher and also give best productivity to the company. Whereas the person who is the graduate in the field, has competence, Wide thinking ability, Higher IQ and skills to take decisions using his learnings. It becomes evident to hire him for the better future of the company. In the similar context, India is a huge Democracy, in order to make it much more progressive and competitive we need our decision makers to be learned, tech savvy, proactive and agiler in solving the issues being faced by us. It becomes evident that more learned and educated people in the system will make it easier for our new Generations. The vision will be better and younger. I seriously hope that Govt of India will listen to this and introduce mandatory Education levels in our democracy. Way Back in 1950, when our constitution was made, it was correct to exclude Education as the mandatory requirement to be an MP or an MLA, because at that time literacy rate was only 18%, whereas now we have Literacy rate more than 74%, then why can't we change now.

As per my opinion education level for ministers should be there because education gives a person an intrinsic value even an experimental learning till the school life while doing certain activity we are able to understand what is right and what is wrong the basic level of education should be there not a specialised one but minimum as till class 10 or 12 or even graduate irrespective of the field of their education because it is not defined anywhere that a student studying biology can't do law everyone can do everything but minimum education should be there. Do we want our politicians that they can't even write their own name properly what do we expect from them that they will lead the whole country what will be the future how our politicians are then going to communicate with other countries minister when they are not educated?
Then how we can even dream that India will be the best country in the world when the ministers are themselves not educated. Recently supreme court has said that panchayats should have a minimum education level so why not our ministers when they are serving at a very high post of the country. It will be a big question that is we following the rule of law?

Is it justified at the present generation highly educated people are fighting for their livelihood n ministers who are not educated what about then is the equality being done?
The government says that free education for children of those who are below poverty line families when they are providing them the minimum education then why not our ministers should have minimum education level.

Hi. Myself Jeelan Shaikh.
In my view, a politician must possess master degree. He must not be totally depend on advisory units for minute problems. He is a public representative and elected to overcome the problem. He must withstand with self-created dialogues and self-desired conceptual changes are solutions else. A proverb states "yatha raaja tathaa prajaa" which means "how the king is so the people are". It's an acceptable fact. The leader should have enough knowledge to understand as well as to solve a remedy. In education, he experiences about the past about the factors and about the tragedies. So I think for a better leadership best higher qualification is needed. To hold the ministry. The chosen person should have the master degree in that sector. As far as Modi ji ministry is the concern. Arun Jaitley ji is a good lawyer and his fame relates with that. If law ministry was given to him instead of finance he would have brought best bills related to that concern. So education qualification must be considered to elect our representative. If India wants quick development it must have competitive leaders and IAS officers in parallel. So that they totally work with better understandings. Hoping our country will gain 100% literature n parliament junior stenographer with the master degree or Ph.d else.

Jai hind. Jazakallah Khair.