FORMER ARVIND BHATKAR A IAS OFFICER KNOWLEDGEABLE IN ALL RESPECTS INCLUDING EDUCATION ETC ETC, BUT SINCE SAVIO WHO MAY NOT BE IAS NEITHER EXPERT IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION BUT HE HAS BEEN CHOSEN BY THE PEOPLE OF GOA TO CONFRONT OR HAVE DEBATE WITH BHATIKAR OR ANYBODY AND DISCUSS ON LINES OF EDUCATION WHICH HE IS WELL VERSED AND HE IS READY AT ANY TIME ANYWHRE FOR A DEBATE. IF BHATIKAR FAILS FOR A DEBATE IT IS SAID THAT HE IS A COWARD AND CANNOT FACE THIS SMALL PERSON FOR A DEBATE IN EDUCATIONAL FIELD. LET BHATIKAR TELL THE PEOPLE OF GOA WHO IS EXPERT OTHER THAN HIMSELF IN TE FIELD OF EDUCATION? SMRITI IS BEEN CHOOSEN AS UNION MINISTER WHEN HER HERSELF IS NOT COMPETENT IN EDUCATION
STEPHEN DIAS DONA PAULA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Would like to debate only with Smriti, Parrikar: Bhatikar Posted by: nt <http://www.navhindtimes.in/author/nt/> December 17, 2015 in Goa News <http://www.navhindtimes.in/category/goanews/> NT NETWORK MARGAO Former IAS officer Arvind Bhatikar, on Wednesday, said that the Forum for Rights of Children to Education (FORCE) convenor Savio Lopes has no experience in the field of education and, hence, he cannot debate with him on the issue of medium of instruction. FORCE has called for an open debate on the MoI issue. FORCE convenor Lopes has called a meeting at Lohia Maidan on December 17 asking Bhatikar to have an open discussion on the issue. While Lopes has been demanding government grants to English primary schools on par with Marathi and Konkani schools, Bhatikar argues that government grants should be given only to vernacular medium primary schools. FORCE had staged a state-wide agitation and observed hunger strike to press for their demand and the government has assured that the demand would be fulfilled by passing a bill to that effect in the January session of the assembly. FORCE had alleged that Bhatikar was communalising the MoI issue. “As an ex-IAS officer and also as one who is closely connected to the field of education in Goa, I would love to debate the issue either with (the union minister) Smriti Irani, who does not seem to be aware of the grant-in-aid mess in Goa; or with Manohar Parrikar, who is responsible for this mess; or with Laxmikant Parsekar, who has failed so far to clear the mess,” he said, adding, Lopes is neither qualified nor has experience in the field of education. He said that “the Government of India’s report on National Education Framework (NEF) also clearly states that primary education should be imparted in the child’s mother tongue. In fact, the NEF even recommends education up to university level in the state or regional language.” The Government of India sent a committee of experts to Goa immediately after the liberation to study the MoI issue for primary education in Goa. The committee, of which, the late professor Armando Menezes was a member, had recommended that primary education in the state should be in Konkani. Share !