Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Deputy Chief Minister, Manish Sisodia laid the foundation stone for the 11,000 new classrooms in over 200 Government schools, at a function at Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya, New Friends Colony on Monday.
Notably, this is the second phase of infrastructure expansion by the Delhi Government, after a successful rollout of 8,000 new classrooms between 2015 and 2018.
Kejriwal in his address said, “Today is historic day, not only for Delhi, but for the whole nation.
Delhi Government is building more classrooms this year, than the number of classrooms being built by all the Governments of States and Central Government combined.”
Speaking at the foundation ceremony, the Deputy Chief Minister said,
“25 new schools have been built, 31 are under construction & the blue prints for 78 new schools have been decided.
We have no illusion that having built the right infrastructure, the work on education is completed”.
“Today Delhi Government schools perform better than even private schools, selections in competitive examination from Government schools have gone up from 40-50 to 250 plus.
This has been possible because the people voted for AAP as a harbinger of honest governance.
Some people opine that education should be kept away from politics, I say to them that the fact that we kept education away from politics, is the reason why the govt schools of the nation are in such sad state.
It’s high time we bring Education in the political discourse of the country,” said Sisodia.