New Delhi, June 12 (FN Agency) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Atishi was felicitated with the ‘Career Change Maker of Decade’ award by a career counselling website on Saturday.Atishi was given the award for her commendable contribution to the field of education and her role in improving Delhi’s government schools, according to the website. While receiving the award, the AAP leader praised the Delhi Government’s education model and said that it improved the faith among people in public schools. “It is a privilege for me to receive this award. Today many cities of the world want to adopt the education model of Delhi, whereas there was a time when no parent wanted to send their children to these government schools. The Delhi Government has not only made the infrastructure of its schools world-class but also made them the centre of quality education. Today, parents across the capital have full faith in the Delhi education model and send their children to government schools with pride,” she said.
Recalling her initial struggle of bringing reform to Delhi’s education system, the MLA from the Kalkaji constituency said she found the schools in “very bad shape”. “Government schools had neither desks for children to sit on nor clean toilets to use. Which also impacted the self-confidence of the children. Considering this as a challenge, we first made the infrastructure of government schools world-class, got excellent training of teachers from abroad, adopted innovations in classes, started programs like Happiness Curriculum, Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum and Business Blasters for children, which gave them confidence and our school results improved significantly. In the past few years, Delhi government schools are scoring better than private schools in board exams,” she added.
Altishi also said that till now our education system used to teach children to find employment options after completing their studies, but through Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum and Business Blasters program, school students have learnt various business skills. “By learning this, children will be able to become job creators instead of job seekers in future and will be able to provide employment opportunities to other people,” she added. Atishi represents the Kalkaji constituency in the Delhi Legislative Assembly and is the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Education. The MLA has served as the Education Advisor to the Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia from July 2015 to April 2018 where she played an instrumental role in strengthening the School Management Committees (SMCs) in the schools run by the state government.