Education in India has been influenced by politics for quite long now. Politicians are using students to get a foot hold in University affairs and students are using politicians to pressurize University authorities into submission. On the other hand teachers are using both students and politicians to promote their own narrow interests.

A University comprises of three inter-related and mutually dependent contents which are teacher, students and non-teaching staff. They are meant basically for the benefit of students who come in quest of knowledge and satisfy others monetary needs. The performance of the teachers plays an important role in the development of the students. It is only in those Countries and Institutions where the teachers perform as required that the Universities flourish.

One of the limitations in the education system is that the Indian University teachers are privileged lot. They have permanent tenure. Their standing in the profession is determined by their seniority rather than by their teaching capability or by the results of the students. Their teaching work is neither evaluated by the students who are considered immature nor by the HODs but they can be partial too. There is non-pyramid structure of the faculty in which lecturers outnumber Readers and Readers outnumber professors. The students don’t ask inconvenient questions from the teachers in the classrooms and teachers in the most of our universities, culture, and character in the area of education. The results are conspicuous.

The major hurdle in the development of the education system is Politics. The Universities are opened or blocked on political considerations. The Vice Chancellors are beholden to political leaders. They are often selected less for their academic merit than for their pliability and capacity to deliver to their political masters. Since their position doesn’t depend on the opinions of their colleagues they are busy playing politics. It increases corruption at every level. All this has a devastating effect on students in these institutions.

The students have to face poor infrastructure, unhygienic conditions poor quality of food in hostels etc. Education is also less and of poor quality which ruin their bright career prospects.
The Vice Chancellor is the most visible symbol of a university. He is the administrative head, Indian university system is generally Vice Chancellor centered. The Vice-Chancellor's selection in India has today become political act by making use of special provision of University Act, almost everyone can be appointed as a Vice Chancellor.

There is no end of the painful realities of Indian higher education. A University stands, for humanism for tolerance, for reason, for adventure of ideas and for search of truth. It stands for the onward march of human race, towards even higher objectives. Our universities today however are far removed from these ideals.