Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday set in motion the creation of 11000 new classrooms in over 200 government schools in Delhi. After constructing 8000 new classrooms between 2015 and 2018, this is the second phase to be constructed.
“Building infrastructure isn’t rocket science, but the way how confidence has been instilled in the teachers of Delhi government schools, through exposures at the most reputed institutes of the world like Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard,” Mr. Kejriwal said.
“It’s unbelievable that 300-350 students of Delhi government schools got through IIT-JEE last year. I am from IIT, I know the hard work it takes,” he added.
The inauguration was made at Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya in New Friends Colony.
“25 new schools have been built, 31 are under construction and the blueprints for 78 new schools have been decided,” Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said at the event.
“We have no illusion that having built the right infrastructure, the work on education is completed. Today Delhi government schools perform better than even private schools, selections in competitive exams from government schools have gone up from 40-50 to more than 250,” he said.
He mentioned that the main reason for the depletion of the quality of education in govt. schools, is due to non-involvement of politics, he said: “It’s high time we bring education in the political discourse of the country.”