BHUBANESWAR: All Utkal Primary Teachers’ Federation (AUPTF) opposed the current initiatives by the HRD Ministry to set up schools under Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode in a Press conference here at the Prathamik Sikshya Bhavan on Saturaday.
Addressing the Press conference, State General Secretary of the federation Kamalakanta Tripathy said that the HRD Ministry is ready to hand over elementary education of the country in the hands of some corporate houses and business company, who will concentrate on their-return on investment than the social and academic outcome among the children.
He also said the Central Government has already opened 3,500 schools in the country out of proposed 6,000 model school and in Odisha the Government has initiated 111 PPP mode schools in the name of model schools. The decision is a major threat for the poor people of the country, he added.
“Undoubtedly, if this model comes in action in the country, it will hamper public education system and affect the effective implementation of the RTE Act and the national public education system will ruin by the so called PPP,” said the members of the federation.
On March 16, a massive rally will be organised at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi opposing the Government’s decision to establish PPP mode school in the country, informed AUPTF president Pramod Kumar Jhankar at the Press conference. A nationwide agitation will be organised to stop the PPP mode in education, he added.
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