Monday, May 09, 2005

‘EDUCATION FOR ALL’ DEFECTIVE: SHABANA

Azamgarh

Social worker and former MP, Shabana Azmi said in Mijwan, her ancestral home town in Azamgarh district that government is trying to spread education through its scheme ‘Education for all’ but this scheme is defective and that is why there is no end to the problem of illiteracy. Therefore, this scheme needs to be changed in order to improve it and make it effective. She was speaking at a function in Kanya Madhyamic School where she also distributed bicycles to one dozen girl students under a government scheme. She also criticised central and state governments’ half hearted measures in providing primary and junior education in the country. Earlier, speaking at Jaunpur she accused a section of the country’s population who, under a conspiracy after Independence, limited the scope of Urdu by declaring it the language of Muslims only whereas in fact it is the dominant language in northern India, she said.

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