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 Celebration (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 can be formulated…,” stated Siddaramaiah, who additionally holds the finance portfolio, presenting his 14th finances in Bengaluru Friday.
The B.S. Yediyurappa-led BJP authorities in Karnataka had pushed to grow to be the primary state within the nation to implement the NEP 2020.
The Siddaramaiah authorities has maintained that it’s going to “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 have been antithetical to those worth programs. Measures can be taken within the present yr to drop such content material from the textbooks,” Siddaramaiah stated Friday in his Finances speech.
The 2 nationwide events have sparred over college schooling as one accused the opposite of “distorting historical past” to push ahead their respective agendas.
Siddaramaiah stated he was compelled to current a income deficit finances as a result of fiscal indiscipline of the earlier BJP authorities and their central leadership-led administration in Delhi.
In his finances, Siddaramaiah additionally introduced insurance coverage cowl of Rs 4 lakh for gig employees.
In the meantime, former CM and BJP chief Basavaraj Bommai slammed the finances and termed the Congress authorities as “anti-people” and stated that his authorities had “introduced a financial savings finances”.
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Advantages for gig employees
To be able to present social safety to the “gig employees” within the unorganised sector, i.e., employed as full-time/part-time supply personnel in e-commerce corporations like Swiggy, Zomato, Amazon, and so forth., insurance coverage facility of complete Rs 4 lakh can be supplied — which can embody life insurance coverage of Rs 2 lakh and unintentional insurance coverage of Rs 2 lakh.
“The complete insurance coverage premium can be borne by the federal government,” Siddaramaiah stated.
Notably, senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi had met with gig employees throughout his Bharat Jodo Yatra and even assured to incorporate them within the bigger welfare programmes of its party-run authorities.
The gig employees 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 common secretary of the Indian Federation Of App-Primarily based Transport Staff (IFAT), informed ThePrint: “Why can’t compensation legal guidelines be made relevant to this workforce whose on a regular basis work is liable to excessive dangers of accidents.”
“The mere technicality of not being an ‘worker’ shouldn’t should cease the spirit of the regulation from being enforced. And this insurance coverage quantity introduced within the finances 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 finances announcement as a chance to cease insuring employees, which have to be a part of their motor autos 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 aspect, 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 distinguished ones have been Water assets and Bengaluru growth, held by Shivakumar.
For water assets, Siddaramaiah stated that the earlier authorities’s “indiscriminate actions” had made it “unimaginable to take up new tasks”.
For Bengaluru growth, he stated that the earlier authorities had left an enormous legal responsibility of Rs 45,000 crore value 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”.
Nevertheless, Shivakumar downplayed the discount in allocation.
“We had spoken earlier in regards to the finances. We all know how you can mobilise assets,” he informed reporters.
(Edited by Anumeha Saxena)
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