Manish Sisodia bats for campaign by states, Centre to develop govt schools
NEW DELHI: Senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia on Thursday urged the Centre and states to work in a 'time-bound' manner to better the quality of education in government schools across the country. His remarks came in response to a tweet by his party’s Rajasthan unit claiming government schools in the Congress-ruled state will be developed on the lines of those in Delhi.
“This is positive politics. All the states and the Centre should jointly run a time-bound campaign on facilities and quality of learning in government schools. Only then India will become a developed nation. Governments closing down government schools are obstacles in the path of making the country developed,” Sisodia said in a tweet in Hindi.
Sisodia, who was in-charge of the education department and the deputy chief minister in the previous AAP government in Delhi, had been leading reforms in school education in the national capital through a huge budgetary expenditure, happiness curriculum, advanced teacher training and other such initiatives. He will take oath along with Chief Minister-elect Arvind Kejriwal and other members of his Cabinet in a ceremony at Ramlila Maidan on February 16.
The AAP returned to power winning 62 seats in the 70-member Delhi Assembly in the election held last week. The improved learning standards and infrastructure at Delhi’s government schools are believed to have boosted AAP’s bid to return for a fresh term in power.