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Education Minister Ashish Sood connected Saturday said information presented successful the Rajya Sabha astir 3.2 lakh Class 9 students of Delhi authorities schools failing implicit the past 5 years proved that the “education reform” of the erstwhile Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) authorities was thing but a “filtering argumentation that pushed children retired of the system”.
“The information exposed the information down AAP’s alleged acquisition revolution, and it was not an acquisition reform, but a filtering argumentation that pushed children retired of the system,” said Mr. Sood.
The Minister besides claimed that the erstwhile AAP authorities “pushed” students to the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), noting that much than 71,000 students joined NIOS successful the past 5 years, including 29,436 successful 2022–23.
In response, AAP said the claims that it pushed students who failed Class IX to NIOS were “illogical”.
According to the written reply of the Ministry of Education successful the Rajya Sabha, 31,541 Class IX students failed successful 2020-21; 28,548 successful 2021-22; 88,421 successful 2022-23; 1,01,344 successful 2023-24 and 70,296 successful 2024-25.
“Today the radical of Delhi tin intelligibly spot the world of the erstwhile AAP government’s acquisition argumentation and notably, it is not a BJP person but AAP’s ain Rajya Sabha MP, Swati Maliwal, who has exposed it by raising this question successful Parliament,” said Mr Sood.
‘Voluntary decision’
AAP said that retired of the 3.2 lakh students, lone 71,000 joined NIOS successful the past 5 years, which is conscionable 22%. “These students opted for NIOS voluntarily truthful that they did not person to repetition the aforesaid class. Had the authorities been pushing them to polish statistics, arsenic alleged by the BJP government, wherefore were lone 22% students pushed and not each 100%,” AAP asked.
