Agartala, Oct 18, 2022, TRIPURATIMES Desk
Agartala, Oct 18: The leader of opposition Manik Sarkar slammed the BJP government on Tuesday and said that the government has failed to form a proper policy for education and ensure education for all. He said, “Education policy needs to ensure job-oriented education for all.”
Sarkar gfelt the need for more investment in education for overall development of a nation and said, “We had our demand for sanctioning of at least 5% GDP in the education sector, but as of now no such initiative was taken by the government.
Sarkar was addressing the 20th state conference of SFI here at Agartala on Tuesday. He continued slamming the BJP government and said, "The new education policy formed by the BJP government is a destructive policy. The policy simply took the target of division in education.”
“At one end the BJP has failed to implement the democratic content and secular values of the education policy which was formed before they came to power, and on the other end the government in Tripura has brought a total destruction in the education sector with their new education policy,” he said.
He termed the new education policy as biased and said, “The children belonging to the poor or the middle-class families are being deprived from education under this new education policy, which perhaps aimed to highlight distorted history by hiding the factual history among the students.”
“Now the BJP-IPFT government in Tripura is trying to follow this policy of education,” Sarkar said to claim that the Left front government in the state was working with a perspective to ensure education for all from the primary level to the higher education.
He claimed, “It was possible for us to ensure education for all just because we invested more in the education sector unlike any other states in the country. Once upon a time Tripura surpassed the states like Kerala and Mizoram in growing the literacy rate and Tripura stood first. We hiked the literacy rate from 35% to 97% in Tripura.”
“But the BJP government is now walking in a very opposite direction by privatising the education sector for profit maximisation. On the other hand, this government is aimed at snatching the rights of education and with this a total destruction was brought to the education sector,” he said.
Sarkar also slammed the government over the hike in unemployment rate and alleged, “A large section of youths are being deprived from employment and the government has failed to form and implement job-oriented education.”
He said, “There is a need to come out from such destruction especially in the education sector and for this the government is required to be ousted from power.”
