Guwahati, April 11: The Assam Trinamool Congress has slammed the state government’s decision to remove all venture schools from the category of recognised/government-aided schools in the Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE) and the subsequent move to remove these schools from the eligible list of PM POSHAN from this month.
“It is unfortunate that the Assam education department has taken a decision not to provincialise schools recognised after January 1, 2006. The government, which spends Rs 100 crore to prepare for a mega Bihu event in a bid to create a world record, has now taken a decision that would adversely affect about 20,000 teachers of 2,319 non-provincialised schools. Such a move is unacceptable under any circumstance,” Assam TMC’s media department chairman Dilip Kumar Sarma said, while addressing mediapersons here on Tuesday.
“This is a shameful decision of the education department of a government that talks about making Assam one of the top five states in the country. The BJP had, in its 2016 election manifesto, promised to provincialise these schools but the government led by the party in the state has now turned a blind eye to these institutions,” Sarma alleged.
The party further termed the decision of the Samagra Shiksha Mission (Assam) to stop the supply of mid-day meals under the Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman scheme to these venture schools as “inhuman”.
“We, the Assam Trinamool Congress, strongly oppose this decision and demand that the directive to stop mid-meals to these schools be withdrawn. We further demand provincialisation of all venture schools recognised after January 1, 2006,” the Assam TMC leader said.
IANS