“Instead of improving facilities of BMC schools, the Sena is talking of providing tabs to students. This is nothing but rubbing salt on the wounds of children.”
Mumbai : Yuva Sena president Aditya Thackeray met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the latter’s residence on Saturday where he said that the party has provided 1,200 tablet PCs till now to students and now targets giving 25,000 tabs to students of BMC schools. However, this did not go down well with Congress, which termed it as a publicity stunt.
“Talking of providing tablet PCs to students studying in civic-run schools is only a publicity stunt because the Shiv Sena has not even been able to provide them basic facilities,” Mumbai Congress president Sanjay Nirupam said.
“The quality of education is deteriorating and students can’t even read and write properly,” he added.
Nirupam also alleged that the Sena, in the last 22 years of its rule in the BMC, did not even bother to improve the quality of education being imparted in civic run schools.
Meanwhile, NCP Mumbai unit president Sachin Ahir said too took on Thackeray junior saying that a recent survey done by a private organisation revealed that around 22 per cent students studying in Class 5 cannot even read alphabets properly.
“The condition of BMC schools is going from bad to worse. There is no hygiene and toilets are kept unclean that result in children falling ill. Some of the buildings in which these schools are being run are also dangerous and can crumble anytime,” Ahir said.
He added that students keep complaining about not receiving their uniforms and books on time. “At such a time, instead of improving facilities of these schools, the Sena is talking of providing tabs to students. This is nothing but rubbing salt on the wounds of children,” he said.
