Govt schools won’t improve till ministers, MLAs, bureaucrats send kids there: CM
Srinagar, Aug 19: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said that the condition of the government schools cannot improve until the elected representatives and senior government officers enroll their kids in these institutions.
Addressing teachers and officers of the School Education Department (SED) during a conference organised on ‘National Education Policy (NEP)-2020: Challenges and Prospectus’ at Sher-e-Kashmir International Convention Centre (SKICC) Srinagar, CM Omar said, “I was sitting here and thinking that there must be a weakness in our education system because in my opinion, no minister, MLA, or any senior officer gets his children admitted to a government school of his own choice.”
He said: “We can’t expect to make the condition of government schools better when our own elected representatives from the Panchayat level to MLAs and senior bureaucrats do not enroll their children in government schools. In a government school, children are not provided proper classrooms because kids of elected representatives and officers are not enrolled in these schools. I can say with confidence that if kids of a CM like me are enrolled in a government school, which does not have a classroom, it will be made available within five days.”
The CM said that if the children of elected representatives and senior officers are enrolled in government schools that have a 25-year-old blackboard, the same would be replaced with a whiteboard, digital board, and other facilities.
