Want Delhi govt schools to be world's best: Arvind Kejriwal

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said he wants the citys government schools should be the best in the world so that students from abroad come here for educationAddressing teachers who had been to foreign countries for training Kejriwal told them that he will keep sending them abroad and they have the support of the people of Delhi and the countrySome people consider it expenditure but it is investment I feel that you can construct four bridges less and four roads less but we should provide best exposure and training to our teachers They will groom students who will build roads and bridges in the future he saidLamenting that some people are trying to defame them he alleged that there is a tendency to bring down those who do good workThere are people who see our good work and feel jealous They want to defame us But I am not interested in party politics If some BJP person or Congress person wants to improve the education system somewhere in the country I will loan Manish Sisodia to them for a few days We want to improve the education system of the entire country Kejriwal addedAlso Read Delhi LG V K Saxena writes to Arvind Kejriwal accuses him of making misleading derogatory remarksHe said the objective of his government is to give the teachers the better learning experienceWe have to compete with international schools There was a time when we wanted that government schools should be better than private schools This has happened Now we want that our schools become the worlds best We imagine about being the best he saidNoting that there is still scope for improvement the chief minister said the endeavour is to provide exposure to teachers to the best practices in the worldThere is a saying miles to go before I sleep There is lots to achieve Our critics also accept that there is a huge change coming in Delhis education system This has happened because of Delhis two crore people he saidKejriwal said before 2015 schools were in an extremely bad state and hailing the teachers for the changeSchools used to function in tents All those schools functioning under tents have now become talent schools Earlier there were no desks leakages from roof happened and there was no security schools but we have done a lot in terms of infrastructure he addedNot only has the infrastructure become better but even the atmosphere has changed with students praising teachers and a sea change coming in the results too he saidKejriwal said government school students have cleared JEE without coachingI also cleared engineering exams but had taken coaching for it he saidThe Delhi government and the Lt Governor office have been engaged in a war of words over the issue of teachers training in FinlandKejriwal had earlier said Delhi LG V K Saxena twice returned a file containing the proposal asking if a costbenefit analysis of the programme had been doneThe Raj Niwas in a series of tweets then clarified that the Lt Governor had only advised the Delhi government to evaluate the proposal in totality and assess the effectiveness of such foreign training programmes undertaken in the pastSaxena advised the government to identify similar training programmes in Indian institutions it had said The government has again sent the proposal to the LGThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever