In a series of fresh allegations, the Swaraj India on Saturday claimed that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government has spent Rs 30 lakh on advertisements for student loans' scheme, while only three students got a mere Rs 3.15 lakh till December 2016.
In a series of fresh allegations, the Swaraj India on Saturday claimed that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government has spent Rs 30 lakh on advertisements for student loans' scheme, while only three students got a mere Rs 3.15 lakh till December 2016.
Addressing a press conference, Swaraj India's leader Yogendra Yadav raised doubts over the government's functioning. The Higher Education and Skill Guarantee Scheme is Delhi government's flagship programme for the young students.
As per the data revealed by the group which they sought through an RTI, till December 30, 2016 (in the past year-and-a-half), loans were given to 97 students out of the 405 applicants through this scheme.
The AAP government in its initial days doubled the education budget, raising it by 106 per cent.
"Of these, the Delhi government gave only three loans, limiting their exposure to a mere Rs 3.15 lakh. All the remaining loans were financed through a similar central government scheme. In its very first year (2015-16), the government made an advertising expenditure of over Rs 30 lakh," Yadav said.
Meanwhile, the AAP refused to react on Yadav's allegations. The party's Delhi unit convener Dilip Pandey said, "We don't want to comment on the claims of those who have no role to play in growth of Delhi politics. At least three lives could be shaped by it."
Yadav also claimed AAP had promised construction of 500 new schools in a year. However, in 2014-15, there were 1,007 Delhi government schools in the National Capital Territory.
"By the end of 2015-16, there were 1,011. All of four new schools were constructed in the entire year. This is much lower than what the previous government managed in each of the last four years. The total number of schools in Delhi NCT also went down in the year 2015-16, 5,796 as opposed to 5,798 till the year before," Yadav said.
He pointed out that Kejriwal had promised 20 new colleges but at the end of 2015-16, Delhi has one college less than it had till the year before (84, compared to 85 in 2014-15).
"It was only the budget's 'planned' component which was hiked to Rs 4,570 crore from the previous year's Rs 2,219 crore by 106 per cent, and not the entire budget. Also, of the gross allocated amount only Rs 2,932 crore was spent. So, the actual planned expenditure on education in Delhi-NCT went up by 37 per cent," Yadav said.
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