Accusing the Modi Government of saffronising education system, senior Congress leader Girija Vyas on Sunday said that sacking educational experts from the national institutes and creating controversies is the balance-sheet of BJP-ruled NDA Government in one year.
In a Press conference at Ahmedabad, Vyas said that over the past one decade a strong education system has been developed, which Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani was trying to break by removing noted educationist and replacing them with people connected with RSS.
According to her, such measures are detrimental to the future generation and would adversely affect the education system of India. launching attack on the Union Education Minister, she said that when the Minister’s educational qualification is under question, what will happen to the credibility of our country’s education.
Giving the example of resignations of noted nuclear scientist Anil Kakodkar and IIT Delhi’s director Raghunath Sevgaukar, Vyas said that it was because of BJP leaders’ attitude; both the experts choose to resign from their respective posts.
She further claimed that the Modi Government has reduced allocation in the Budget by Rs14,088.59 crore. “In primary education the reduction was Rs10,186 crore, Rs1,422 crore in secondary and Rs1,479 crore in higher education. The Central Government has also ceased a scheme to establish 6,000 model school across the country,” she said.