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Governor PB Acharya lambasts state govt on education, employment; says more BPL doesn’t signify more welfare
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Governor PB Acharya lambasts state govt on education, employment; says more BPL doesn’t signify more welfare
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Agartala, August 23 (TIWN): Tripura’s incumbent Governor Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya today lambasted the ruling Left Front saying that the state was suffering from brain drain in the left regime and said that the state’s internal school education system was in shambles.

The teacher student ratio is abysmal, he said. The Governor added that the state might have a school in each Km but it doesn’t do any good when they don’t deliver.

Addressing the media in a surprise note at the Raj Bhawan here this morning, Governor PB Acharya said that he was informed about existence of proxy teachers. “I was told that teacher distribution amidst schools of the state wasn’t proper in several cases owing to which proxy teachers came in. This trend frustrates the aim of education”, he said.

Governor Acharya further said that he had discussed the issue over with five universities from Delhi, Maharashtra and Karnakata to introduce teachers’ exchange programmes with rural schools and colleges of Tripura. They have initially agreed to the proposal, the governor said.

The governor said that the state’s educated youths were leaving the state each year for pursuing higher studies elsewhere in the country or abroad. “I feel there is an urgent need of studying and figuring out why this trend is working. This one way traffic is causing a brain drain for the state. We are having sufficient colleges, university in Tripura and yet why would students be leaving?” he observed.

Governor Acharya today said that teacher exchange programme with universities from across the country would be started soon. Twenty faculties from the Tripura University would be sent to other universities in the first phase, he said.

The Governor set out priorities for human resource development in the state and said that education, electricity and employment should be considered basic prerequisites.

He took a jab at the state government’s stand on reducing BPL card holders and said that more BPL wouldn’t signify more development. “Funds wouldn’t fall short for any good projects”, he said.

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