The twenty-day long ‘Shiksha Swaraj Yatra’ organised by ‘Swaraj Abhiyan’ for bringing radical changes in the educational system ended at Dehradun on Wednesday. The participants of the Yatra were garlanded when they arrived at protest site after the criss crossing the state in last twenty days.
Speaking on the occasion Pant said that the people of the state are fed up with politicisation of education. She said that there is an urgent need to convert education and development as electoral issues so that the political parties are forced to toe the public opinion. Pant said that it is depressing to note that the political parties of the state are not breaking their long silence on commercialisation of education and are not uttering a single word on equal education for all.
She said that the quality of education in the Government schools where 70 per cent of the students of State are enrolled is deteriorating at a fast pace. Pant informed that the Yatra covered all 13 districts of the State and received tremendous public response.