LG 'withholding clearance' on proposal to send teachers to Finland: Delhi Dy CM

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday accused Lt Governor V K Saxena of withholding clearance on Delhi governments proposal to send primary teachers of staterun schools to Finland for trainingIn his letter Sisodia asked Saxena to immediately approve the training programSharing the letter on Twitter Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also urged the LG to allow the teachers to attend the training programAlso readLess than eight per cent of undertrials have utilized legal services they were entitled toI urge Honble LG to allow our teachers to go abroad for training Honble LG had himself said that he is not against it he said in a tweetThe Delhi government had on January 20 sent the proposal to the Lt Governors Office to allow the teachers to visit Finland days after Saxena asked the government to first conduct a costbenefit analysis of the programThe file related to sending primary teachers of Delhi government schools to Finland for training has been lying on your table since January 20You have neither given your consent to this proposal nor have you started the process of sending it to the Honourable President for taking a decision on it Sisodia said in the letterSisodia alleged that the LG had sent back the file to the government twice on the pretext of seeking clarificationSir since October 2022 the file is taking rounds in your office You sent the file back twice on the pretext of seeking clarification When the Honourable chief minister along with his ministers and MLAs came to meet you to talk about this you refused to meet us That day the media on your behalf said that you have not refused to send teachers to FinlandI had sent the file to you again This time I was hoping that you would give your consent on this within 24 hours But it has been more than 10 days since the file was sent your approval has not come yet Sisodia said in the letterSisodia said politics should not be played on such sensitive issues and urged Saxena to clear the fileYou unconstitutionally stopped the proposal twice to send teachers to Finland for training Due to this a delegation of 30 teachers could not be sent for training in December 2022 and now once again in March 2023 the training of 30 teachers is also on the verge of cancellationThats why I request you again to immediately allow the teachers to be sent to Finland for training There should be no politics on such important and sensitive issues he saidKejriwal had earlier said Saxena twice returned a file containing the proposal asking if a costbenefit analysis of the program had been doneThe Raj Niwas in a series of tweets then clarified that the Lt Governor had only advised the Delhi government to evaluate the proposal in totality and assess the effectiveness of such foreign training program undertaken in the pastSaxena advised the government to identify similar training program in Indian institutions it had saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever