I have stopped counting how many times the PM has repeated this along with the increasingly boring accounts of the varying impact that one Andre Masson article had on him. He seems to find it very convenient to use SSR as a catch-all category to obliterate the hard work of others. In this case the implementation of free education by one Kher Jagatsingh.
Hah, you might say. Implementation is nothing, vision is everything. Not really. Did you know that about 90% of organisations were unable to execute their strategies in the 1990s? You can also take a look at Navin's track record. Didn't he say he wanted to make us all millionaires? That was one of his visions. Interesting. Wow. Awesome. But things didn't quite play out according to script: thanks to the bean-counter, he presided over a very brutal creation of inequality in Mauritius. Do I need to expand on his Maurice Ile Durable (MID) project?
Returning to free education, here is SVR's take on what really happened as reported in Le Mauricien of September 13, 1986: ... qu'au moment ou lui meme, feu SSR et aussi sir Kher preparaient le manifeste du Parti Travailliste pour les elections de 1976, Sir Kher etait venu avec l'idee de l'education gratuite.
