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Labelling the state education department as the “epicenter of corruption”, the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) on Wednesday launched a “Shikshan Bachao” campaign while attacking the state government for neglecting infrastructure and recruitments in schools across Gujarat. Addressing a press conference in Vadodara, GPCC spokesperson Dr Manish Doshi said that the party will undertake dialogue and a sustained door-to-door campaign to spread the message to the voters.
Ahead of the upcoming civic body polls in the state, the Congress is urging stakeholders and citizens to join in the Shikshan Bachao campaign while slamming the BJP government for the “grave vacancies” across educational institutions in the state.
Doshi said, “The education department has become the epicenter of corruption in Gujarat. The state government and granted colleges have a deficit of 45% to 65% teaching staff… While the Congress government has given people the Right to Education, the BJP government is snatching it back…”
“Over 42,000 classrooms are in deficit in the government schools and 40,000 teacher posts are vacant. For over 15 years, librarians and physical trainers have not been appointed in schools,” he said.
Doshi claimed that the Gujarat Common Admission Services (GCAS) has delayed the admission process across the state into undergraduate courses while Vadodara’s MS University, which was among the top-ranked university in the country, has fallen off the charts to land at 176th position due to the “appointment of ineligible Vice-Chancellors” in the recent years.
Doshi said, “The Gujarat government considers expenditure on recruitment of teachers as non-productive expenditure”.
“We will sit on dharnas and create awareness about this… Teachers should have equality of pay and work and the system of fixed pay… outsourcing and contractual employment should be done away with. The vacant posts should be filled and the private universities that are running an arbitrary show should be taken to task…” he asserted.
Hitting back at Congress, a senior BJP leader said, “It is the frustration of the Congress that is making them peddle lies after lies. Educational reforms have been introduced and implemented under the BJP governments over the years in the state and more so after 2014 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was elected at the Centre. The schemes of the Gujarat government have benefitted students in rural areas with the introduction of the model residential schools as well as renovations of several school buildings undertaken during the last few years…”
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