01/12/2022
ALL INDIA SAVE EDUCATION COMMITTEE
88B, B.B. Ganguly Street, Kolkata- 700012
AISEC All India Committee has issued the following condolence message after the demise of Prof Anis Kumar Ray, General Secretary of AISEC.
Prof. Anish Kumar Ray , General Secretary of the All India Save Education Committee(AISEC), retired Professor of Presidency College, Kolkata and a distinguished educationist breathed his last on 29th November at 6.30 PM at Calcutta Heart Clinic & Hospital after prolonged illness at the age of 79 years.
After the demise of Prof. Gouri Shankar Ghatak, the then General Secretary in November 2014 he became the General Secretary of AISEC and successfully led the organisation for eight years. He was a renowned educationist and ardent fighter for the cause of education. Under his stewardship the AISEC gained strength in states. After the BJP led Union Government announced the Draft National Education Policy (DNEP 2019) and finally adopted the disastrous NEP 2020 on 29th July 2020, the AISEC from the very beginning organised a series of movements. During the COVID 19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown there were a series of online protest programs in which he played a leading role. On a number of occasions, he addressed webinars from the hospital bed taking permission from the attending doctors. Before lockdown he visited different states and inspired the education loving people and teaching community to develop mighty mass movements to save education from this onslaught. In the last all India convention held online on 30-31 October 2021 he was again elected as General Secretary of the AISEC. In May 2022 inspite of his ill health he enthusiastically attended the mass dharna defying the scorching heat of Delhi and inspired the entire gathering. When the Central Government tried to impose Hindi as the sole official language and medium of instruction the AISEC organised an all India webinar on 27 November last. He was a tireless writer with profound knowledge. He could grasp the issues relating to education very promptly. He himself used to pen almost all important documents of AISEC. The stand of the AISEC on language problem was masterly drafted by Prof. Ray inspite of his critical illness. But he couldn’t attend that program as he was then in hospital bed. With his tender, modest and gentle behaviour without any iota of self conciet, he could endear himself and became beloved to all. At his demise, the AISEC lost an inspiring, efficient and worthy General Secretary and the country has lost a great fighter for the cause of education.