kolkata chief minister buddhadeb bhattacharjee slammed the rssdictated education policy of the centre on friday and said that the state would decide its own education policy based on progressive development of science and technology and not religionaddressing the teachers day function at rabindra sadan bhattacharjee said educational policies will be drafted independently by the state without interference by the centre we want to emerge as centres of excellence maintaining the progressive tradition of bengalthe chief minister stressed the need for modernising madrasah education and said that new policies had been adopted by the state to upgrade and improve the curriculumwe have set up 38 engineering colleges in the state with the help of private investments in education he addedthe state government felicitated 15 retired teachers at the function where school education minister kanti biswas admitted it was a great shame for the state government that it hadnt been able to pay teachers pension on timesome teachers organisations however stayed away from the teachers day celebrations organised by the government members of the bengal primary teachers association participated in a daylong demonstration at esplanade to protest against the antiteacher and antieducation policy of the government around 20000 members of the secondary teachers and employees association attended their own programmes in the districts