Manish Sisodia, Deputy Chief Minister, Delhi was present at the GITAM Vizag campus to address students, academicians, and civil society members as part of their Changemakers series. As part of the exclusive series, national and global leaders visit GITAM campuses, and share their dynamic insights, providing an outside the classroom learning opportunity for teachers and students. Mr. Sisodia spoke at length about the Delhi Government’s education initiatives, the mission, and vision behind these initiatives, his growing up years, the transition from activism to politics, adopting participative democratic methods, and much more. He started by talking about his vision for education, “In the last seven years, people of Delhi have allowed us to work on governance and I don’t know if we can say it has transformed, but there is a beginning. In Delhi, we have worked in two folds – one is fixing the problem of the education system and using education to fix the problems of the society.” He added, “We’ve made education a political priority. Education has never been a priority for politicians because the results of investing in education are not immediate. While building roads or working on other infrastructure – right before elections guarantees support during elections, the same can’t be said about education. But we’ve changed the narrative through our work in Delhi. Now politicians do talk about education before elections.”
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