B'desh Minister visits Delhi govt school to understand 'educational reforms'

NEW DELHI: Education Minister Manish Sisodia along with a team of delegates from Bangladesh headed by the Minister of State for Primary and Mass Education, Bangladesh, Md Zakir Hossain, visited a Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalaya (RPVV) located at Shalimar Bagh on Wednesday.

Welcoming the team from Bangladesh amidst an assembly of students, teachers and news reporters present there, Sisodia said, "We appreciate their keen interest in understanding the various educational reforms undertaken by the Delhi Government in the past four years."

"The credit goes to the team of teachers, principals, and parents who have done wonders. When we came to power, we never thought as an educationist, we only had the belief that whatever dreams we had for our country, these would only be realised by using the pipeline of education. Only when fix the problem of education, we will have solutions to all other issues too," Sisodia said.

He stressed on the urgent need of bringing in reforms in the system of education through Happiness Curriculum and other programmes. "We have decided to allocate 25% of the budget of Delhi government to education." Sisodia said.

"We are very charmed to hear that things are going on in a positive way. We will review this programme and take the benefits from this. I am moved by the active participation from students, teachers and parents alike. We invite the teachers to visit my country as well. We are focussed towards providing quality education to our children. I appreciate your hospitality towards me and my team. I invite the deputy CM to come to my country and share the good things of this curriculum amongst my children too," Hossain said, addressing the audience.

"Our motive is to make our teachers learn about the world around them and pass it on to the students, and help us deliver world class professionals," said Sisodia.