BJP MLA blames single-child families for decrease of schools in the state

Team Udayavani, Jul 4, 2018, 12:19 PM IST

Chikkamagaluru: Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Belli Prakash on Tuesday that the trend of couples deciding on a single child has prompted villages having less school-going children, and this thus has brought about the conclusion of numerous primary schools in the State. As indicated by him, schools keep running by the government have been the most exceedingly bad hit. 

Talking on the motion of thanks to the Governor’s deliver to the joint session of the State legislature, he said a few government schools have either closed down or are confronting closure. 

Mr. Prakash, a previous zilla panchayat member, drew the consideration of the House on the situation of government primary schools in his constituency Kadur in Chikkamagaluru. Guardians of youngsters who are of school-going age are additionally unwilling to sending them to government schools as they have poor system and teachers, aside from teaching in Kannada, he said. But, the government elementary schools situated in regions ruled by Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and OBC people group have been getting great affirmation numbers, he included. 

C.T. Ravi of the BJP mediated to deride the past Congress government’s ‘Bhagya’ plans. He mockingly proposed that the Kumaraswamy government ought to present a ‘Makkala Bhagya’ scheme. 

On government schools losing support to non-public schools, Arvind Bellad of the BJP said it was fundamentally a result of Kannada being the medium of direction. 

K.M. Shivalinge Gowda of the JD(S), in the interim, said usage of the Right to Education Act was one of the primary purposes behind end of government schools.