Upgrading education number one priority: Kejriwal
New Delhi: Delhi government's first priority is to upgrade education, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has said after launching a mobile app that would connect about 16,000 members of School Management Committees (SMCs).
"Upgrading education is number one priority of our government and for that, we are working constantly for launching various schemes and policies," he said here on Thursday.
The app was launched in the presence of 16,000 members of the SMCs of all schools.
It is expected to help schools, parents and students for better co-ordination and result oriented performance.
"We have done an experiment towards democratization of School Education System in Delhi," Kejriwal said.
"Our effort is to make the SMC members realized that they are the owners of the schools and will contribute their services for betterment of quality of education in schools," he added.
Kejriwal stressed upon the need for effectively implementing the SMC App.
He said that SMCs decisions should be made binding upon the schools.
He also said that SMC should be provided with some funds to carry out essential and need based works in the schools apart from giving power to the SMCs to fill up the vacant post of the teachers in the schools on emergent and on hiring basis.
"This app will help in making the process more transparent and is going to be an effective help for all stakeholder by all means," he said.
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia was also present on the occasion.
He said that a separate fund in the ensuing budget for the SMCs to carry out the needy and essential works in the schools.
"Managing education includes managing work, motivation and commitment, creativity and innovativeness, competence and confidence.
"These four components form the major pillars of good personal management," he said.
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Shivaji statue collapse case: HC grants bail to consultant Chetan Patil
Mumbai (PTI): The Bombay High Court on Thursday granted bail to consultant Chetan Patil arrested in connection with the collapse of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj''s statue at Rajkot fort in Malvan in August.
A 35-foot statue of the iconic Maratha warrior king collapsed in Sindhudurg district on August 26, nearly nine months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled it on Navy Day.
Patil was arrested on August 30 from Kolhapur.
A single bench of Justice A S Kilor on Thursday held that no case was made out to implicate Patil in the case as he had not been appointed as the structural designer of the statue.
The bench further said Patil had only submitted a structural stability report of the pedestal of the statue and the pedestal was intact even after the collapse.
Another accused, Jaydeep Apte, who was the sculptor and contractor, was also arrested in the case. The HC said it would hear his bail plea on November 25.
The Sindhudurg police had registered an FIR under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for negligence and other offences last month against Apte and Patil for the statue's collapse.
Patil and Apte moved HC seeking bail after a sessions court rejected their pleas.
