Amid the Twitter spat with Arvind Kejriwal, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday introduced a plan to spend Rs 10,000 crore to make the state’s excessive faculties look higher and enhance infrastructure.
“For the development of our excessive faculties, we are going to spend Rs 10,000 crore so that every high school appears to be higher than the convent schools, and we are able to enhance infrastructure. That is how we are attempting to deliver a brand new circulate of growth to the whole state,” Sarma said in Udalguri district.
The CM was addressing a public assembly after laying the inspiration of a brand new bridge in North Assam’s Udalguri district.
Sarma additionally admitted that the infrastructure of the state’s excessive faculties was not superb.
The spat between Sarma and Kejriwal started on August 24 when the Delhi CM first questioned the Assam authorities’s choice of shutting down 34 authorities faculties for his or her poor ends in the category X examination.
“Closing the colleges is just not a solution. As an alternative, we should open extra faculties throughout India. We should attempt to enhance the situation of the colleges,” Kejriwal tweeted.
Kejriwal repeatedly instructed Sarma that he needs to go to Assam to see the federal government faculties. He additionally invited Sarma to go to Delhi and see how the federal government faculties have been improved there by the Aam Aadmi Party.
On Kejriwal insisting on going to Assam and see the situation of faculties, Sarma slammed Delhi CM and tweeted, “Your ignorance is painful. Let me show you how to. Assam is 50 instances larger than Delhi! Our 44521 govt faculties train 65 lakh students- towards your 1000+ odd faculties. Our military of devoted academics numbers 2+ lakh; Noon meal employees 1.18 lakh. Fathom it?”
“Not like in Delhi, we handle fury of floods, handled militancy, negotiate hilly & robust terrains – and but ship high-quality schooling. We impart schooling in six mediums together with 14 completely different tribal languages….,” Sarma tweeted on Friday.
Ministers in Sarma’s cabinet and the BJP MLAs additionally began condemning Kejriwal’s tweets that questioned the steps taken by the Assam authorities to enhance the federal government faculties.
