Students compare Siddaramaiah’s uniform gift to mosquito net, miniskirts!
- The clothes distributed to students of government schools are substandard
- The cloth is so transparent that students have compared it to mosquito nets
- Even tailors have said that they cannot stitch uniform with this cloth
- Not only transparent, but the clothes are also short and not enough to stitch a uniform
FollowThe Siddaramaiah government is trying to bask in the glory of its schemes, but the uniform scheme has drawn flak as students are refusing to use them.
The Karnataka government has distributed clothes to the students for government schools in the state to stitch uniforms. But many schools and the students are complaining that the clothes are not of good quality and not long enough to stitch uniform.
Students of Kollegala Government School in Chamarajanagar district have complained that the cloth given to stitch uniform is like a mosquito net. It is so thin that even tailors are said to have told that they cannot stitch uniform with that cloth. Some students had stitched the uniform but are embarrassed to wear it as it is transparent and the skirt is too short.
Even students of Puttur Government School near Mangaluru have complaints about the uniform cloth. The parents of the students have expressed anger and said if their children have to wear miniskirts to the school? They said the cloth was too short to be stitched into a uniform. Parents are not staging a protest as the government was providing other schemes like milk and midday meal to the students, reported Vijaya Karnataka.
Most schemes including Annabhagya, distributing shoes, bicycles to students have drawn flak. Recently, videos of bags of rice, being stored to be distributed under Annabhagya Scheme to the poor were seen to be stolen by people on bikes and bicycles in the state.
Even the shoes promised for students did not reach them even after completion of that annual year. Thus in addition to these schemes is the uniform cloth scheme, which is not being received well by the beneficiaries.
Declaring and announcing schemes and offers is not difficult but bringing them into execution is very crucial. People do not count the announcement of the government as its achievement, but the way it was implemented makes an impact on them.
Thus promising something big and distributing substandard material cannot be considered as the achievement of the government. So, the Siddaramaiah government which is gearing up for the election should make it sure that it fulfils its promises in entirety and not do it for the sake of doing it.
Let the transparent and short uniform saga be a lesson to the government as these kinds of superficial acts spread fast among the people. If the leaders do not wake up now and set these problems right, soon the opposition will have plenty to complain about, and people can’t help but agree to it. This might prove costly to Siddaramaiah government in the next election.
