Partap Bajwa slams Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann for the sorry state of affairs of schools in Punjab’s Gurdaspur

Chandigarh, July 29

Giving an earnest consideration to the pathetic state of schools in the border district Gurdaspur, the Leader of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa on Monday lashed out at Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann for painting a false and exaggerated picture of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Punjab government’s education model.

Referring to the The Tribune report, Bajwa said that of the 90 primary schools near the international border in the district, 28 have no teachers. As many as 35 schools have just one teacher. As far as senior secondary and high schools are concerned, a total of 40 posts of principals and headmasters are lying vacant.

“The story doesn’t end here. There has been a serious lack of sanitation facilities in most of the schools. The fundamental infrastructure of most of the schools like buildings, desks and toilets has been in dire straits,” Bajwa added.

The senior Congress leader said that children belonging to the weaker sections of society study in government schools. Education is the only way to bring them out of poverty and usher in a new way of life. What kind of future the AAP government is thinking of building with such an education model?

“In haste to implement the faulty Delhi education model, the AAP government in Punjab has been playing with the future of students belonging to the poor class. CM Mann often boasts about introducing the school of eminence in Punjab, why doesn’t he own the responsibility of the students studying in these schools,” Bajwa asked.

The opposition leader said that Punjab’s education model in the previous Congress regime grabbed several national-level awards. However, the standard of education in the state has hit an all-time low in the two-and-a-half-year regime of the AAP.