Bengaluru: The Siddaramaiah-led Congress authorities in Karnataka has proposed to draft a brand new schooling coverage to counter the Nationwide Schooling Coverage (NEP) of the central authorities led by the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP).
“The Nationwide Schooling Coverage carried out by the central authorities is incompatible with the federal system of governance. It has a number of anomalies which undermine the structure and democracy. (The) Uniform Schooling System doesn’t go well with a nation like India which has various religions, languages and cultures. A brand new schooling coverage will probably be formulated…,” mentioned Siddaramaiah, who additionally holds the finance portfolio, presenting his 14th price range in Bengaluru Friday.
The B.S. Yediyurappa-led BJP authorities in Karnataka had pushed to turn into the primary state within the nation to implement the NEP 2020.
The Siddaramaiah authorities has maintained that it’ll “undo all of the wrongs by the earlier authorities”, particularly within the area of schooling.
“The earlier authorities had launched sure ideas within the textual content books which had been antithetical to those worth techniques. Measures will probably be taken within the present 12 months to drop such content material from the textbooks,” Siddaramaiah mentioned Friday in his Finances speech.
The 2 nationwide events have sparred over faculty schooling as one accused the opposite of “distorting historical past” to push ahead their respective agendas.
Siddaramaiah mentioned he was pressured to current a income deficit price range because of the fiscal indiscipline of the earlier BJP authorities and their central leadership-led administration in Delhi.
In his price range, Siddaramaiah additionally introduced insurance coverage cowl of Rs 4 lakh for gig staff.
In the meantime, former CM and BJP chief Basavaraj Bommai slammed the price range and termed the Congress authorities as “anti-people” and mentioned that his authorities had “offered a financial savings price range”.
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Advantages for gig staff
With a view to present social safety to the “gig staff” within the unorganised sector, i.e., employed as full-time/part-time supply personnel in e-commerce corporations like Swiggy, Zomato, Amazon, and so on., insurance coverage facility of complete Rs 4 lakh will probably be supplied — which can embrace life insurance coverage of Rs 2 lakh and unintentional insurance coverage of Rs 2 lakh.
“The complete insurance coverage premium will probably be borne by the federal government,” Siddaramaiah mentioned.
Notably, senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi had met with gig staff throughout his Bharat Jodo Yatra and even assured to incorporate them within the bigger welfare programmes of its party-run authorities.
The gig staff affiliation has welcomed the transfer by the Karnataka authorities however chided e-commerce corporations for his or her lack of concern.
Shaik Salauddin, the founder, state president and nationwide basic secretary of the Indian Federation Of App-Primarily based Transport Staff (IFAT), instructed ThePrint: “Why can’t compensation legal guidelines be made relevant to this workforce whose on a regular basis work is susceptible to excessive dangers of accidents.”
“The mere technicality of not being an ‘worker’ shouldn’t need to cease the spirit of the regulation from being enforced. And this insurance coverage quantity introduced within the price range is lesser than the quantity that employee’s households may declare from these corporations (Rs 4 or 5 lakh) within the case of deadly accidents.”
He added that these corporations will see the price range announcement as a possibility to cease insuring staff, which have to be a part of their motor automobiles pointers.
Deputy downplays speculations of rift
On the customary post-budget press convention, the CM was flanked solely by finance division officers and two Congress legislators. With deputy CM D.Ok. Shivakumar additionally not by his facet, there have been speculations that each one was not properly between the 2 leaders.
The CM has slashed allocations to a number of departments — two outstanding ones had been Water sources and Bengaluru growth, held by Shivakumar.
For water sources, Siddaramaiah mentioned that the earlier authorities’s “indiscriminate actions” had made it “unattainable to take up new tasks”.
For Bengaluru growth, he mentioned that the earlier authorities had left an enormous legal responsibility of Rs 45,000 crore price of incomplete works and pending funds in 2022-23, which might take not less than “six to eight years to come back out of this legal responsibility”.
Nonetheless, Shivakumar downplayed the discount in allocation.
“We had spoken earlier in regards to the price range. We all know find out how to mobilise sources,” he instructed reporters.
(Edited by Anumeha Saxena)
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