Up News: 'Schools are closing, bars are opening...' MP close to Akhilesh Yadav wrote a letter to CM Yogi:

News Topical, Digital Desk : UP News: Samajwadi Party MP from Ghosi Rajiv Rai has written a letter to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath regarding the merger and pairing of government schools in the state and has demanded the cancellation of the order of primary and upper primary schools run by the Basic Education Department. Rajiv Rai has also given his reaction by sharing the letter written to the CM on the social media platform X and has written and asked what kind of Ram Rajya is Yogi ji creating in which schools are closing and they are becoming liquor dens. He said that schools are closing in the state and liquor shops are opening everywhere? It is your responsibility to provide education to every child of Uttar Pradesh at the nearest distance from his residence, and you are requested to immediately withdraw the order of merging schools.

While Lok Sabha MP Rajeev Rai has written a letter
to the CM and said that an order has been issued for merge pairing of primary and upper primary schools run by the Basic Education Department in Uttar Pradesh with other schools having less than 50 enrolments

He further wrote that the schools for which the process of merging has been started mostly have poor, exploited, deprived, backward, underprivileged and economically challenged children studying in them. In such a situation where primary and upper primary schools are the only means of education for poor children in remote rural areas, closing down schools with less than 50 enrolments in the name of merging will make it extremely difficult for the children of that village to go to other schools without means and resources.

MP made these demands to CM
Rajiv Rai said that in the name of merger not only schools are being locked but the future of children is also being locked. While stating his demands, he said that this merger policy should be stopped with immediate effect, local school should be guaranteed in every village as per RTE Act.

While making further demands, he wrote that instead of privatization and centralization in education, public participation and decentralization should be promoted, teachers should not be asked to do any non-educational work other than teaching, new teachers should be appointed and schools should be equipped with modern facilities.