Educational qualification for Politicians

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!

Necessary condition apart from being knowledgeable is to have the passion for serving the nation and practical application of the same.

A politician represents the nation and thus he should be a wearing the coat of knowledge along with personality.

Education is the most important parameter for the overall growth of the country and when we talk about the personnel who administrate the country, education is prior.

EDUCATION is one of the keys which helps us in analyse the things what's wrong and what's right. It also enhances and facilitates the way of thinking.

As politician is considered, they are the one who has to administrate this much population of a country so, they must be educated not so much higher degree like phd or doctorate but at least that much so that they can analyse the thing efficiently.

I think not the only politician but each and every citizen should be educated.

We have an example of president Obama. During his presidency, he managed the lives of US citizens because of his strong education background in law and his love for his country.

So, I think before allowing candidates to take part in the election, as age is compulsory for the candidates likewise relevant degree must be compulsory like law, economics, political science etc.

My name is Harsh Sharma.

I thought our country's politics level is very low and bad. According to me, a politician is the ruler and care-taker of our country. If he/she will be educated then only our country will become a developed and educated country in future. So, there should be some restrictions for those who want to participate in politics, and the restrictions would be they should be educated, they should be graduated, if they are not educated they will not be able to participate in elections. And some reservation for women should be there in legislative assemblies of our country. Women should have right to take part in decision making. Then only in our country may call a developed country in future.

There should be some level of education for our national leaders because when they are educated they stand to make more rational decisions on behave of their nation.

In my opinion, a politician is who can change the rules of a society, he controls over the country, he should be knowledgeable, known to every factor of the country, but it dosen't mean that he should be a degree holder. He should be educated but most importantly he should be very much aware of the whole country, he should be a good leader who can hold the whole country. He should be honest towards his work, and he should be able to find out the ways to make our country developed. He is ion that place for the people, to the people, and of the people, so his first priority should be the problems of the peoples, who will vote his be in that place.

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.

Like all people's view even I agree to the same that there should be mandatory exam based on gk, related to politics. They should have atleast minimum knowledge about it, including basic knowledge because even that is imp. Now a days when we the common people are being educated why can't they. So, I don't strongly agree with it but yes I agree.

In my opinion, education is necessary but can not make mandatory. Education degree can be forged.

Highly educated candidate can not give guarantee of good governance. For good governance candidate have knowledge of Basics of Governance and other factors (IQ, GK. Ect). We need process to assess candidate on above criteria. Like to play cricket, you have to know how to play cricket same way if you want to take part in government you have to know basics of governance.

I have started petition for above process if you agree please sign and share,

Https://www.change.org/p/india-mandatory-entrance-exam-for-candidate-to-contest-general-election-in-india.

I don't think that high education is necessary for politics.