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Kejriwal welcomes national education debate as ‘people’s movement’
AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday welcomed the growing nationwide discussion on education, saying it should have begun much earlier. In a post on X, he said he was happy that education…
AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday welcomed the growing nationwide discussion on education, saying it should have begun much earlier. In a post on X, he said he was happy that education and schools were being discussed across the country and that it had become a people's movement.
Kejriwal was responding to a video posted by Punjab Education Minister Harjot Singh Bains, who visited Government High School in Jhalla village to verify claims of poor facilities. Bains said the video being circulated was old and did not reflect the school's current condition.
Kejriwal claimed that government schools improved by his party in Delhi and Punjab now competed with private institutions in facilities and educational quality. He said there were thousands of instances where parents had shifted their children from private to government schools, and that improvements in Punjab's schools were still underway but most had received basic facilities.
Indian Opinion Analysis
The AAP has staked its political reputation on turning around Delhi's government schools, a flagship programme that helped it win three consecutive terms. The party now faces the harder task of replicating that model in Punjab, where it took power in 2022. The old-video allegation is a familiar pattern: state governments often dismiss critical clips as outdated, but the frequency of such videos suggests grassroots discontent persists even if the worst schools are outliers. Punjab's education budget for 2025-26 is Rs 14,700 crore, and the real test will be whether student learning outcomes in government schools improve on the next National Achievement Survey, expected later this year.
Source: indiatoday.in
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