Team News Riveting
New Delhi, May 21
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao and his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal today visited a government school in the national capital’s Moti Bagh area besides a Mohalla clinic to take stock of innovation made in the public system by the AAP government.
Rao and his party leaders were welcomed by Kejriwal and his deputy, Manish Sisodia, at the Sarvodaya Vidyalaya Senior Secondary School. They later toured the school.
The delegation visited classrooms, labs and the students’ playing area among other facilities.
Briefing Rao about the Delhi government’s “remarkable improvements” in education, Kejriwal said many private school students were taking admission in government schools because of the quality of education being imparted.
“We have around 1,100 schools and nearly 18 lakh students studying in them. Earlier, this number was 16 lakh, but now, due to remarkable improvements in the education sector, many students of private schools are joining our government schools,” Kejriwal told Rao.
Officials of the Delhi education department also gave a presentation regarding improvements being done in the sector by the AAP government.
“Hon’ble CM lauded the efforts of Delhi Government to establish hundreds of Mohalla Clinics to provide quality healthcare service to the residents of Delhi. Around 488 Aam Aadmi Mohalla Clinics are currently functioning with and 200 more to be ready by September, 2022,” a tweet from the KCR office said.