Yogi’s concern over education quality

Expressing concern over the quality of education in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said the need of the hour was to improve the quality because in the recent selection of teachers for Basic Education Council, around 70 per cent of the applicants failed to pass the test.

“The recent process of selection of teachers of Basic Education Council is a big eye opener for us as it revealed the condition of education in Uttar Pradesh. Recently, the result of the examination of trained graduates was announced in which 70 per cent of the candidates failed,” the chief minister said at a seminar in Gorakhpur on Monday.

He said that this showed which way the quality of education was going. “So the need of the hour is to pay special attention to our education quality,” Yogi said.

In the same vein, however, he said that the demand for Indian teachers was the highest in the world and to make it more effective, the government would teach foreign languages to teachers and send them abroad by upgrading their qualifications.

“Uttar Pradesh has the largest population of youth in India. Whenever these youngsters get the opportunity, they prove their talent. We have never tried to understand the potential of the youth in right earnest. All the educational institutions in Uttar Pradesh should identify such countries where teachers are needed and the languages spoken there so that these language could be linked to the regular curriculum and teachers could be sent outside the country,” he said while addressing the seminar on ‘Bharatiya sanskriti ke sanskritik mulya Mahant Avaidyanath’ at Digvijaynath LT Training College in Gorakhpur on Monday.

Talking about the contribution of Mahant Avaidyanathji in the education sector, the chief minister said that Mahantji removed the differences of faith and religion.

“A living example of this can be seen in the langar in the Gorakhnath temple where people of every faith and religion receive prasad,” he said.

The chief minister said that Mahant Avaidyanath never hesitated in removing malpractices and evils prevalent in society and that is why saints from all over the country invited him as the president for the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi movement.

“He understood human sentiments well and gave up his whole life for social welfare,” the chief minister said.