Delhi BJP lashed out at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal saying the AAP Government did nothing for regularisation of teachers in the national Capital despite being in power for the last eight years. “The Kejriwal Government did not even increase the salary of Delhi teachers in last eight years and the teachers here still have to approach the court for their salaries,” Delhi BJP leaders said on Saturday.
The BJP reaction comes after Kejriwal appreciated the AAP-led Punjab government for regularising 8,736 school teachers, and urged all state governments to do the same.
The Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri urged the people of states-Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh do not trust what Kejriwal is saying. “He lies all the time and mislead the people for those states going to polls,” Bidhuri said. The BJP leader questioned how many teachers or contract workers regularised in the national capital? Bidhuri said that out of 1,027 Government schools, only 203 have principals.
There are no vice-principals in 418 schools and 24 thousand posts of teachers are lying vacant. Guest teachers were appointed on 22,000 posts, but none of them were made permanent. This year there has been a decline of more than 15 per cent in the class X Board results.
Adesh Gupta, the Delhi BJP president said that it is very shameful that Delhi is the only state in the country where teachers work as daily wagers and so much so that even their money is deducted for all holidays like government holidays, festivals or even Sundays. “Also, they neither get TA, DA, HRA and CL nor any medical facilities. Not only this, their salary hasn’t increased in six years.
The All India Guest Teachers Association itself has accused the Kejriwal government of refusing to confirm 22,000 teachers despite promise,” alleged Gupta.
Gupta said that Kejriwal government of Delhi talks about its education model and asks other states to adopt it, but if ratio between teachers and students is seen, then it ranks second among worst states of the country.
“As per UDISD data, there is only one teacher for 33 students in primary and one teacher for 30 students in upper primary school in Delhi. Will the country progress by adopting this education model?,” claimed Gupta.
Gupta further said that Kejriwal kept on beating the drums of Delhi's education system while the last seven years saw the number of students in government schools coming down by 1.09 lakh whereas the same period saw the students number in public schools in Delhi increasing by 3.25 lakh.
