Sharmila questions TRS on KG to PG free education scheme
The Hindu
‘Except KCR’s family, no one in the State is happy’
Chief of YSR Telangana Party Y.S. Sharmila made controversial comments on Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao comparing the governance to raising donkeys and accused him of sleeping in the farm house, leaving people in the lurch.
On the fourth day of her padayatra on Saturday, she walked for 12.1 kms from Poshettyguda to Nagaram in Maheshwaram mandal. During her interaction with the people, she asked whether they were happy with the government that has cheated people on KG to PG free education, unemployment dole, rising fuel prices.
According to a statement from the party, some youngsters couldn’t control their tears while explaining how they had become a burden on the parents without any jobs. They allegedly complained that double bed room houses just remained a promise while pensions are denied on one pretext or the other.
Several principals of government and private schools in Delhi on Tuesday said the Directorate of Education (DoE) circular from a day earlier, directing schools to conduct classes in ‘hybrid’ mode, had caused confusion regarding day-to-day operations as they did not know how many students would return to school from Wednesday and how would teachers instruct in two modes — online and in person — at once. The DoE circular on Monday had also stated that the option to “exercise online mode of education, wherever available, shall vest with the students and their guardians”. Several schoolteachers also expressed confusion regarding the DoE order. A government schoolteacher said he was unsure of how to cope with the resumption of physical classes, given that the order directing government offices to ensure that 50% of the employees work from home is still in place. On Monday, the Commission for Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) had, on the orders of the Supreme Court, directed schools in Delhi-NCR to shift classes to the hybrid mode, following which the DoE had issued the circular. The court had urged the Centre’s pollution watchdog to consider restarting physical classes due to many students missing out on the mid-day meals and lacking the necessary means to attend classes online. The CAQM had, on November 20, asked schools in Delhi-NCR to shift to the online mode of teaching.