Education has emerged as the most indispensable factor in promoting human resource development, economic development and technological advancement in the form of virtues of freedom, social justice and equal opportunities. Besides that, education plays an important role in contemporary society to raise the standard of living and act as a mechanism to prevent conflict situation in the society (Singha, 2013). There has been a critical analysis of education which claimed that the era has changed. In recent times the focus is from ‘making man’ through education to ‘money making from education’ became one of the objectives of education. Such stages are coming up when education is moving towards the process of commercialization. Education is taken as a commodity in the market by investing for shaping a student in future role and can make profit out of it in the form of income (Indira, 2012: 688).
This paper seeks to study the changing trend of education system in Manipur particularly the trend of private tuition culture which has become a competition not only for the students but also for the parents. The study seeks to examine the commercialization of education and its impact and will also aim to examine how education gradually becomes pertinent only to some section of the population.
Education, Indigenous/Traditional Education, Modern Education, Privatization, Commercialization
