the newlyappointed education minister manish sisodia has the unenviable task of fixing delhis education systemslower and higher public and private just a week into the job he has met both sets of officials for status updates set some targets and is reviewing other areas he discusses existing provisions and roadmaps for the future with toiof all the portfolios you are handling why is education priority were addressing social and governance problems without strengthening education you cant do anything what we are engaged in now is like flood reliefemergency the ultimate solutions can come only from education its the governments priority if after 20 years of education people dont know how to treat their neighbours and colleagues whos responsible i know about five lakh children enroll at the entry level every year 265 lakh complete school education almost 50 drop out we have to see whats going wrong they are somehow retained till class five education has been commercialized and government schoolsbarring a fewhave lost credibility if im sending my kids to a government school apart from academics ill demand basic thingsworking toilets water hygiene the facilities have to be of good quality government schemes have to be delivered and in innovative waysdo you have a plan to implement the rte act 2009 many of these aspects are already covered by it we will have a roadmapschools built on publicprivatepartnership model are the new thing has it already happenedsome applications have already been vetted but they are yet to be built many rte activists are resisting ppps whats your stand i still have to study this frankly i dont have any opinion on it but i would like it if people directly control the schools rather than any private companyare any changes expected in the new guidelines for nursery admissions no in fact these are to be strictly implemented ill fix up a helpline which will be almost like complaining directly to me there could be some issues but this is the best way to do itprivate schools feel their autonomy is threatened schooleducation is not a matter of profitmaking but of nationbuilding thats why we in india have schools run by trusts not companies the basic concept of education in india is charity and social uplift that has to be preservedyouve spoken of feeregulation in private schools the process has to be transparent and the way to make them transparent is some sort of feeregulationwhat are your plans for higher education only 90000 of more than 265 lakh school graduates get admission in delhi institutions ive asked my department to create a roadmap for the remaining 175 lakhthe previous government announced reservation for delhiites in colleges receiving grants from the delhi government are you going to retain this they announced but didnt act on it to implement you have to come to an arrangement with delhi university and ministry of human resource development well have to enforce it if people of delhi are funding something shouldnt they benefit from it