Need to explore links between politicians and private schools: Marlena

The government should have the political will to promote public education, AAP leader Atishi Marlena said Friday and noted that there should be a mechanism in place to probe the link between politicians and private schools.

She was speaking at the Difficult Dialogues annual session here on how public school education was losing out to private players.

"The government in power needs to have the political will to really care about public schools and that is something governments after governments have not done...Someone should also research the links between politicians and private schools," she said.

She asked why would the people in power improve public education if they have incentives in private education.

Difficult Dialogues 2019 is holding a series of sessions on education and its myriad facets. The session on 'Primary Education' Friday looked at enrolment and dropout rates, quality of education imparted and the reasons why private education is preferred by even those belonging ..