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Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal
West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu has alleged that the Center has not released the third installment of the Sarva Shiksha Mission (SSM) for the state.
Basu claimed in a social media post on Friday that the Center is yet to send the amount as West Bengal has not signed an MoU with the Center on the PM SHRI (Pradhan Mantri School for Rising India) scheme.
“The Ministry of Finance and the Internal Finance Division of the Ministry of Education have authorized the release of the third installment for West Bengal for the MSE. Still, the fund has not been released to our state. The unstated reason is that we have not signed MoU. with Government of India on PM SHRI. It is completely unethical and illegal to link release of funds from one scheme with a separate scheme,” the senior TMC leader said in a post on X.
Basu also wondered why a scheme should be called PM SHRI when the state takes 40 per cent stake.
This is nothing more than petty politics, he said.
Basu told reporters on Saturday: “I have never seen such a vindictive central government before. After officially releasing the money due to us, they are blocking the flow. Aren’t they harming the interests of the student community?”
The SSM is an integrated plan for school education from preschool to grade 12.
The plan is in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goal for Education (SDG-4).
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First published: March 30, 2024 | 11:18 am IS
