Punjab Education Minister, Vijay Inder Singla, todayadvised his Delhi counterpart, Manish Sisodia to first check fact regarding thestatus of "Learning Level and Quality" parameter in the "Performance Grading Index" released by the Uniongovernment before stooping so low to unnecessarily politicise the issue.
"The Delhi Education Minister, Sisodia and hispoliltical party has become so scarred with the achievement of Punjab in thefield of school education that he has started misleading people with totallyfalse and illogical statements", further said the Education Minister whileadding that Manish Sisodia had been saying that Punjab had performed badly in"Learning Level and Quality" in the recent "PerformanceGrading Index".
"But, the fact is that if Punjab's performance ispoor then performance of Delhi schools under the same parameter is even pooreras while Delhi has scored 124 marks , the score of Punjab is 126 in theNational Achievement Survey conducted in 2017", said Singla while addingthat even if Sisodia had been politicising the issue then he should haveverified facts that when National Achievement Survey was conducted in 2017, AAPgovernment in Delhi had already completed more than two years in power and Congressgovernment in Punjab had just few months old at that time.
Besides, as National achievement Survey could not beconducted in November 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic, hence Punjab had to besatisfied with the old performance. But, this time Punjab was fully preparedand had the NAS been conducted, the Punjab schools in "Learning Level andQuality" would have also achieved top rank in this parameter too.
Punjab has never given political tinge to its movement tobring in qualitative improvement in Education. Last time, when Delhi baggedfourth rank then no accusing finger was raised on the authenticity of the" Performance Grading Index" . Even now, Delhi Education Minister,Manish Sisodia has been raising fingers on Punjab only and not on four others states/UTs - Chandigarh, Tamilnadu, Kerala , Andaman & Nicobar, which are alsoahead of Delhi in the ranking, justbecause AAP is eyeing to get political mileage in the ensuing Assembly polls inPunjab by its misleading propaganda, said Singla.
Moreover, here it is worth mentioning that in Delhi allthe 2000 Primary schools are being run by MCD. There are three Corporations andall have BJP majority and BJP Mayor. As many as 1031 High and Senior SecondarySchools are being run by Delhi Government led by AAP. On the other hand, thereare 19000 government schools including 13000 primary and 6000 High and SeniorSecondary, which are exclusively run by Punjab government.
Under the drive to bring in qualitative improvement, thePunjab government in collaboration with teachers and philanthropists here andabroad has succeeded in converting the drive into mass movement, which hasresulted in sprucing up of the infrastructural as well as quality educationfacilities in the government schools.
“The revolutionary changes in government schools as wellas trust being reposed by the public could easily be gauged from the hugeincrease in enrollment especially shifting of students from private togovernment schools”, further added the Education Minister while saying that theDelhi Education Minister, Manish Sisodia, in an affidavit submitted in a courtcase about two years ago had stated that the learning level of 70 % governmentschools in Delhi was poor.