Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Bengaluru president Mohan Dasari on Thursday claimed that enrollment in government schools has declined by 1.62 lakh this year. education Minister BC Nagesh’s incompetence and BJP government’s “negligence” towards the education sector.
Addressing a press conference at the party’s state office, Mohan Dasari said, “More than one lakh parents, who were in financial crisis due to Covid, had shifted their children from private schools to government schools . But now fed up with the plight of government schools, they are getting their children re-admitted to private schools. As a result, there has been a reduction of 1.62 lakh students from classes I to X in government schools.”
“Out of 47,585 government schools in Karnataka, 6,529 schools have only one teacher. Most of the schools lack infrastructure and teachers. It is sad that instead of development in schools and colleges, priority is given to communal politics. In Delhi, the AAP government has set up world-class infrastructure in government schools where the number of students is increasing significantly. AAP should come to power here for such educational revolution in Karnataka also,” said Mohan Dasari.
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Responding to the state government’s plea seeking three months time to notify reservation of wards, Mohan Dasari said, “It is a proof of the cowardice of the BJP that the state government is trying to postpone the BBMP elections, Which was going to happen in 2020 even after the rebuke of the court. Even the opposition Congress and JD(S) MLAs in Bengaluru are not pressing for the BBMP elections. The fear of defeat is haunting all the three parties and hence they are showing solidarity in postponing the elections.
“BJP knows that the defeat in BBMP elections will have an impact on the assembly elections. So, the government is conspiring to hold the BBMP elections along with or after the assembly elections. However, AAP is getting good public support in Bengaluru and across the state and we will get a majority in BBMP and assembly elections any time now.”
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