Sisodia lashes out at DDA for not allotting promised land for school

New Delhi, December 15

Education minister Manish Sisodia today lashed out at the BJP-run DDA for not giving enough land for construction of a school, Quami Senior Secondary School, that has been operating from Eidgah (open-air enclosure), calling the BJP anti-education.

No immediate response was available from the BJP or the DDA that comes under the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.

Sisodia said the DDA committed to the High Court to give 4,000 square metre of land to the Delhi government for construction of a school which has been operating out of an Eidgah since 1976. "But now, the DDA is saying it would allot just 1,600 square metre land and reduce the number of classes that would be taught. They are planning to give just a lane for the school which is unacceptable," he said.

"Once again, the BJP has proved its anti-education stand. They want our country to remain illiterate," he said.

Sources said that the management committee of the school has been approaching the authorities concerned time and again to only get promises and assurance. — TNS