A fresh row has erupted over senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia's visit to schools in Punjab. The Punjab Teachers' Association has raised objections regarding Sisodia's ongoing visits to Punjab schools, saying that they are not in favour of people from other states coming and checking the education system, calling it an "unwanted interference."
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00:00More news coming in, there is a row, a controversy over Sisodia's visit to Punjab schools.
00:06Objection raised by Punjab Teachers' Association.
00:08Teachers' Association claims Sisodia isn't authorized.
00:11Teachers' Association said LEIs rejected AAP model.
00:15Sisodia visiting Punjab government schools since the last few days.
00:18Why is that happening is the question the teachers are asking.
00:21Listen in.
00:30Why is that happening is the question the teachers are asking.
01:00Why is that happening is the question the teachers are asking.
01:31We haven't seen such a change in a long time.
01:34We haven't seen such a change in a long time.
01:42Aman is with us for the very latest on that.
01:44Aman, take us to the details of what the teachers are saying,
01:47given that Mani Sisodia's Delhi education model has been spoken about
01:51and is seen in good light, isn't it?
01:54It's essentially considered a successful model.
01:58Well, it has, but in Punjab now, the teachers' associations are somehow objecting it
02:04and they say it's putting their morale down also.
02:08And for the last three days, Mani Sisodia was in Taran Taran, Fatehgarh Sahib and Mohali.
02:14And in some schools, the teachers were not informed, their head principals,
02:19the head teachers were not informed.
02:21So, it was sort of an inspection.
02:24The education minister, Mani Sisodia, went and all of a sudden,
02:29they felt that it is an unauthorized person for the Punjab schools
02:33that's making an inspection or guiding the students for the policy.
02:38But whereas in Punjab, they should have been working on Punjab's education policy,
02:43which was promised on last year, 5th of September on Teachers' Day,
02:47it's still to be completed, it's still to be implemented.
02:50And other than teachers' policy, Punjab has a different decorum,
02:54a different order for the schools and for where the policy has to be implemented.
03:00So, whether it's Punjab's language or the teachers or their recruitment is concerned,
03:05Punjab's teachers' concerns have been raised.
03:09So, that should be addressed by the Punjab government itself.
03:12No one from the outside, coming from other states,
03:15where people have neglected the Delhi model as well and their government as well.
03:19So, people from their leaders, from their coming and inspecting schools,
03:23and the teacher is not acceptable.
03:25And for this, for 23rd of February, that is tomorrow,
03:28a meeting has been called in Moga of Punjab,
03:31where this democratic teachers' front will strategize how to object it further.
03:36And also, a warning has been given to the education department of Punjab
03:41that this sort of intervention or putting legs in the department
03:48will not be accepted and teachers will object it further as well.