Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Friday said the Delhi government has re-sent a proposal to the Lieutenant Governor to allow teachers of its schools to attend a training program in Finland and mentioned that a cost-benefit analysis has been done. Was.
Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena had reportedly earlier rejected a similar proposal, asking the Delhi government to analyse.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal hoped that teachers would be allowed to go abroad for the programme.
Sisodia, whoever Education The minister tweeted in Hindi, “The proposal to send Delhi government teachers to Finland for training has been sent again to the Lieutenant Governor.” The Finland-based training was stopped twice by raising objections.
AAP members led by Atishi protested outside the Lt Governor’s residence last week over the issue.
Raj Niwas, however, said at the time that “the LG has not rejected the proposal for a training program for primary in-charges in Finland. Any statement to the contrary is misleading and motivated by mischief.”
Quoting Sisodia’s tweet, Kejriwal said, “I hope Hon’ble LG will allow Delhi government school teachers to go abroad for training.” The fresh proposal was sent amid growing tension between the Kejriwal government and Saxena on a number of issues.
In the proposal presented this time, Sisodia said that the government examined the proposal from all aspects including cost-benefit analysis and found it necessary to improve the quality of education.
The resolution said, “If the Chief Minister and the Education Minister have decided to send their teachers abroad, how can the LG stop it by repeatedly raising petty objections?” It is against the democracy and the constitution that an unelected person is subverting and changing almost every decision of a democratically elected government.
“The elite class of our country is suffering from feudal mindset; They want to send their children abroad but also strongly object to sending teachers of poor children abroad and want a cost-benefit analysis. LG’s comment is extremely unfortunate; This type of regressive feudal mindset should have no place in 21st century India.
The resolution states that, as per the Supreme Court, the LG does not have the power to order a cost-benefit analysis of any decision of the Council of Ministers.
“Want to remind LG that SC orders are binding on every citizen of the country not only India But be the law,” it said.
Sisodia also cited a Supreme Court judgment where it has been reiterated twice that the Lieutenant Governor has not been entrusted with any independent decision-making power.
“Therefore, the Hon’ble LG does not have the power to order a cost-benefit analysis of any decision of the Council of Ministers. Hon’ble LG has said that he is not bound to follow the orders of the Supreme Court as he considers them as the ‘opinions of the SC’. We would like to remind Hon’ble LG that the orders of the Supreme Court are not only binding on every citizen of India but have become the law of the land. Everyone is bound to follow the orders of the Hon’ble SC,” Sisodia said.
Noting how the Supreme Court had ruled that the real decision-making power lies with the chief minister along with the council of ministers, the senior AAP leader said, “Your Delhi government has been elected by two crore people of Delhi. In one judgment after another, the Hon’ble Supreme Court has ruled in favor of democracy that an elected Council of Ministers headed by a Chief Minister holds all the powers.
“So, if the Chief Minister and the Education Minister have decided that they want to send their teachers abroad for training, how can the Hon’ble LG stop it by repeatedly raising petty objections?” “After doing all the analysis and examining all aspects, the Delhi Government has decided to send its teachers to Finland for training. Hon’ble LG may kindly inform whether he intends to implement the provision of Article 239AA(4) of the Constitution If he chooses to do so, he should follow the procedure provided in Rule 49 of the TBR,” concluded Sisodia.
Kejriwal had earlier said that Saxena had twice returned a file containing the proposal, asking whether a cost-benefit analysis of the program had been done.
Raj Niwas clarified in a series of tweets that the Lt Governor had only advised the Delhi government to holistically evaluate the proposal and assess the effectiveness of such foreign training programs undertaken in the past.
Saxena advised the government to identify similar training programs in Indian institutions.
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