new delhi stating that people who despite having money dont recruit principals dont open new schools or pay salaries to the employees union education minister dharmendra pradhan on wednesday said that such vayan veeron statement heros should not be taken seriously pradhan was replying to a question on delhi cm arvind kejriwals letter to pm narendra modi where the app leader stated that the condition of 80 of government schools is worse than junkyard during a media briefing the education minister said that the quality of education in delhigovernment schools even lags behind smaller uts like chandigarhslamming kejriwal for comparing schools to kabar khana pradhan said that since the aap government came to power in delhi there has been an allround decline in quality of education he pointed out that since 2015 enrolment in delhi government schools has been on decline even after seven years of coming to power the government has not fulfilled its election promise of 500 model schools and there has been no new school principals appointedciting unified district information system for education udise and national achievement survey nas data pradhan said that delhi schools have been suffering from quality and governance issues resulting in learning outcomes of classes iii v viii and x students in delhigovernment schools lower than the national averagefor a state like delhi a substantial amount for major development is taken care of by the government of india to a government which considers education as its brownie point i will just put forward four points based on facts said pradhan adding that enrolment in delhigovernment schools have been declining since the aap government came to power in 2015 it is their own statistics speakingin 2015 in their election manifesto they promised to set up 500 model schools said pradhan before citing a news report of august 29 2022 and adding forget 500 during these seveneight years through an rti it has been learnt they have opened just 63 schools their own education departments website reveals that no new schools have been set up in delhi as promisedquality is a bigger concern in schools run by the delhi government said pradhan they claim that they have the best education system in the world in consultation with all state governments including delhi government nas was conducted where from 1602 delhi schools to 10000 teachers participated and 65000 students based on random sampling were surveyed in all these four verticals delhigovernment schools lagged significantly behind national average in class iii delhis score was 42 as against the national average of 54 in class v national average was 48 delhi scored 37 in class viii national average was 38 delhi got 37 similarly in class x the national average was 40 delhi scored 39 even chandigarh has better scores than delhi in terms of qualitypradhan also said that not a single new teacher or new principal has been recruited in 2020 and 2021 this is based on udise data shared by the state governments themselves and today