New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kapil Mishra countered claims made by Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and said that Delhi government is focusing on ‘advertising campaign’ rather than addressing issues of students in public schools. He also claimed that number of students in public schools is constantly decreasing.
The attack came days after Deputy Sisodia asked UP CM Yogi Adityanath to resign if he is unable to improve the education system in UP.
Mishra in a tweet attached a list of 10 questions and wrote, “10 straight questions to Manish Sisodia on Delhi’s failed education system. Earlier Manish Sisodia ji lied to the people of UP. My challenge is to answer these 10 questions to the public. The education revolution in Delhi is actually an “advertising revolution.”
“In 2014, 1 lakh 66 thousand students sat for the 12th examination; in 2015, 1 lakh 40 thousand; in 2016, 1 lakh 3 thousand; in 2017, 1 lakh 21 thousand; in 2018 only 1 lakh 11 thousand children sat in the 12th examination. Why and how did this terrible shortage happen?” Mishra asked?
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ये नही चलेगा @msisodia जीसीधी चुनौती :
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The BJP leader asked why as many as 1.40 lakh students left government schools and joined private schools, and why compared to 2014, as many as 42,000 less number of students from public schools passed the 12th board?
Mishra stated that compared to class 9th, only half of the students reach class 10th, while only one-third of them reached class 12th.
He further alleged that despite announcing a big portion of the budget for education, the Delhi government for the past five years constantly is not spending around Rs 2,000 crore of it.
Mishra asked Sisodia about the number of teachers recruited in government schools in the last seven years and said that 70 per cent of positions for principals in government schools are vacant.
“Why 92 per cent of the schools are short of teachers? Why 76 per cent of the schools do not even have a drinking water connection? In the last five years, Delhi’s government schools witnessed a 62 per cent reduction in the area of playing field, 53 per cent reduction in the Science labs, a decrease of about 74 per cent in libraries. Instead of increasing the facilities for students, the facilities are gradually decreasing,” he stated further.
On December 19, Sisodia had slammed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath saying that if he cannot provide good education to children of Uttar Pradesh, which has a large population, then he should resign.
