Cong releases roadmap to improve health, education

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, March 29

A draft roadmap to improve the primary education and health centre released today pointed out the Congress party’s vision to complete overhaul the education system and health service if the party is voted to power in the MCDelhi.

It has plans to introduce major institutional reforms by instituting supervisory bodies to ensure quality education to the students and training to teachers.

Releasing the roadmap, DPCC president Ajay Maken said he would set up an empowered group for quality education to monitor MCD schools. The group members will be retired school principals, education experts having at least 15 years of international experience in the field of education, representative of guardians of students, representatives of NGOs and representatives from MCDs.

He said the Congress would also open Delhi City Leadership Academy using the unutilized land banks of the MCD for training the existing teachers and principals in order to enable them meet world standard of primary education. 

The Congress will also improve infrastructure in schools. Teaching and learning material will be provided to students.

The draft has also highlighted ten point action plan for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. It said the Congress will hand over the hospitals run under the municipal corporation to the Delhi government that will safe its Rs 652 crore. The MCD will concentrate on primary health clinics. It will also find ways to control vector borne diseases, Maken said.

He said that as the medicines are costly, the MCD would provide affordable medicines through fair price pharmacies. The primary health centres will be at all metro stations. It will also set up a health watch group.

Senior Congress leaders – Shashi Tharoor , Salman Khurshid and P.C. Chacko – were also present on the occasion.