Prof Arun Kumar The first education policy in 1968 and the second in 1986 emphasised a public-sector-centred approach to education. In India in the early 1990s, private-sector interventions in education began through public-private partnerships. What started as maintaining proportions gradually saw the ‘public’ component shrink and the ‘private’ component expand, leading to complete privatisation. Just as the public sector stagnated across the board, corporate forces gained c