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Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia lashed out at Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena. (File photograph/PTI)
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia lashed out at Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena on Saturday, accusing him of creating “false allegations” towards the training division and “mocking” the lecturers working within the nationwide capital.
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia lashed out at Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena on Saturday, accusing him of creating “false allegations” towards the training division and “mocking” the lecturers working within the nationwide capital.
In a letter to Saxena, Sisodia stated the LG’s letter to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday was written with a political motive and his “false allegations” towards the training division have been an “insult” to the scholars and lecturers of Delhi.
“The LG wrote the letter with a political motive and stated no work has been achieved within the training division of Delhi. His allegations are an insult to the scholars and lecturers of Delhi. I’m requesting the LG to not mock the work of our lecturers, who’ve achieved wonders within the division,” Sisodia, who additionally holds the training portfolio, wrote to Saxena.
In his letter to Kejriwal on Friday, the LG tried to place the Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) authorities in Delhi within the dock by elevating a number of points associated to the town’s training sector.
He stated the common attendance in authorities faculties has been falling yearly, dropping to 60.65 per cent in 2019-2020 from 70.73 per cent in 2012-2013. He additionally questioned the AAP dispensation’s claims on college students migrating from non-public faculties to authorities faculties.
Responding to the allegation, Sisodia stated the faculties run by the Delhi authorities have registered a move proportion of 99.6 and a lot of college students in these faculties have gotten good grades.
“It doesn’t swimsuit an individual sitting within the chair of the lieutenant governor to write down a letter mentioning false figures,” he stated.
The deputy chief minister additionally alleged that the figures supplied by the LG have been false and that he “defamed” the whole training system of the nationwide capital along with his assertion.
“Whereas the LG alleged that the variety of college students in authorities faculties of Delhi decreased from 16 lakh to 15 lakh, the fact is that the variety of college students elevated to 18 lakh. Our training division has additionally reworked the infrastructure of the faculties. The ‘tent wale faculties’ have now changed into ‘expertise wale faculties’,” Sisodia’s letter to Saxena learn.
The deputy chief minister stated the AAP authorities has achieved all of the work within the training division within the final seven years regardless of the hurdles put up by the Centre and successive LGs.
“For the sake of the way forward for the kids of Delhi, I want to request you to cooperate within the work of the Delhi authorities as a substitute of obstructing it. The Structure has given you the accountability of sustaining legislation and order in Delhi. You must enable us to do our work and utilise your time to enhance the legislation and order within the metropolis,” he wrote to Saxena.
Taking to social media, Kejriwal stated Delhi’s lecturers, college students and their mother and father have collectively labored arduous within the final seven years to reform the town’s training system. “As an alternative of insulting the training system, the LG ought to encourage them,” the chief minister added.
Referring to the LG’s letter to Kejriwal, AAP nationwide spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj stated Saxena’s assertion was “derogatory”.
“The LG’s assertion was derogatory. He blatantly lied in his letter. He stated the variety of college students within the faculties run by the Delhi authorities lowered after the AAP got here to energy, however the fact is the quantity elevated from 14.66 lakh in 2015 to 18 lakh in 2022,” he stated.
Bharadwaj claimed that even the kids of the poor have been excelling in training by learning within the Delhi authorities faculties.
“Even the kids of the poor in Delhi have been excelling in research. The LG has been defaming the work achieved by our authorities. When college students go for job interviews, they proudly say that they studied in Delhi authorities faculties,” he stated.
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