Education in Delhi Schools: Rhetoric vs. Reality Delhi-School-Education-Rep-June-2018 | Page 11

DELHI SCHOOLS AND DIRTY POLITICS
It has been observed that politicians of all political parties that ruled Delhi during the
past few decades could never improve school education standards. But the quality of
education has particularly deteriorated during the past about 3 years.
While the politicians in Delhi Government headed by chief minister Arvind Kejriwal
are playing dirty politics, they want to use teachers as their political agents in
schools. The politicians protect all incompetent teachers because they want political
favors in return from teachers as they can influence millions of voters - such as
parents of local students.
Today, there are nearly 6,000 government or aided schools in which nearly 5 million
students are enrolled. A conservative estimate suggests that the number of parents
of these students is more than 3 million. This is a massive vote bank.
Obviously, all political parties would like to woo these parents in all types of Delhi
elections. At present in Delhi’s population of 20 million, there are around 13 million
voters. Normally, on average, 60% voters vote in an election. So, it will be safe to
assume that roughly 8 million voters vote in a Delhi election. The parties that win
elections get somewhere between 30% to 50% votes; other votes get divided among
defeated parties.
Going by this formula, the political party that gets about 4 million votes can hope to
win an election in Delhi. Now the vote bank of 3 million parents of school teachers
looks very big. Almost all of these 3 million voters are poor and uneducated who
usually vote in elections. The percentage of educated voters is very low in all Indian
elections.
It is extremely easy for Delhi politicians to deceive these uneducated parents of
school students by repeatedly telling lies and saying that education quality is very
good in schools. But actually the education quality is bad and false education
publicity has become a big scandal in Delhi. Poor parents are not aware of this
ongoing political fraud.
Instead of empowering the students with quality education, the Delhi Government is
creating a dependent society that survives on government dole - such as free water,
cheap electricity, subsidized ration, and free health care. The politicians know that it
will be impossible for them to cheat the educated and informed citizens. So, they
never tried to provide good education to them. Delhi politicians know that in all Indian
elections, only poor, uneducated, and ignorant voters vote. That’s why they never
tried to revamp the education systems.
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