Kejriwal’s Mission Buniyaad to Help School Students Read Books
Mission Buniyaad (foundation) launched by Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is supposed to help students even in higher classes read books.
By Rakesh Raman
The Delhi Government headed by Arvind Kejriwal has always been making false claims about the quality of education in schools.
However, now the government has admitted that let alone proper education to make students employable, most students in Delhi schools cannot even read their books.
Mission Buniyaad (foundation) launched by Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is supposed to help students even in higher classes read books.
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“Across government schools in India, many kids till 8th class can barely read their own textbooks properly. Before we talk about education, we need to address this shocking reality,” AAP said in a statement released today.
The Education Minister of Delhi, Manish Sisodia, has announced the launch of “Mission Buniyaad” for improving reading levels of children studying in Delhi government schools as well as municipal schools.
शिक्षा लाओ, स्कूल बचाओ आंदोलन
Meanwhile, the residents of Delhi have started a new movement “शिक्षा लाओ, स्कूल बचाओ” to get the quality of education improved in Delhi schools. The students, parents, and teachers can participate in this movement so that the education rights of millions of children in Delhi could be protected. Click here for details.
Kejriwal government suggests that for 3 months (April to June), parents of Delhi should sacrifice to restore the ‘Buniyaad’, the foundation for the kids.
The program will target hundreds of thousands of students to provide them reading skills and knowledge of basic arithmetic operations such as addition, subtraction, etc. The entire program will run from Classes 3 to 5 in MCD schools and in Classes 6 to 9 in Delhi government schools.
Across Govt. Schools in India, many kids till 8th class can barely read their own textbooks properly. Before we talk about education, we need to address this shocking reality.
AAP Govt. in Delhi has recognized the wide gap & have taken up a mission: #AAPKaMissionBuniyaad pic.twitter.com/jIE0QXcrO3
— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) April 11, 2018
Announcing the program, Sisodia had referred to the National Achievement Survey (NAS) which has shown that the entire country, including Delhi, has a crisis of learning in schools. The NAS survey reveals that about half of all children in schools are not able to read their grade level textbooks.
By Rakesh Raman, who is a national award-winning journalist and social activist. Besides working at senior editorial positions with leading media companies, he was writing an exclusive edit-page tech business column (named Technophile) regularly for The Financial Express (a daily business newspaper of The Indian Express Group).
Earlier, he had been associated with the United Nations (UN) through United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) as a digital media expert to help businesses use technology for brand marketing and business development. He also runs a free school for deserving children under his NGO – RMN Foundation.
