CHENNAI: While the DMK, which introduced the Uniform School Education system (USE), is keeping mum on the AIADMK government’s decision to put the system on hold for a year, the PMK and AIADMK’s ally CPM have opposed the move and appealed to Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday to permit introduction of the USE as scheduled.Though two days have passed since the government announced its decision to postpone the introduction of the second phase of the USE in the current academic year, there was no response from the DMK on the issue yet.While party president M Karunanidhi is now in New Delhi owing to the case against his daughter Kanimozhi, no other DMK leader has come out with any statement.Meanwhile, CPM State secretary G Ramakrishnan appealed to the government to take steps to rectify the errors in the present form of the USE while implementing it. According to him, the decision to give up textbooks prepared for the USE at a cost of `200 crore has created confusion among students, while teachers and educationists were disappointed with the move.Ramakrishnan observed that the USE was introduced after a long struggle by many democratic voices,including students’ associations, teachers and educationists.Meanwhile, PMK founder S Ramadoss termed the decision taken by the first Cabinet meeting of the AIADMK government as shocking. Recalling that even he had pointed out some lacunae in the present system, Ramadoss felt that these shortcomings would be set right gradually. Postponing the introduction of this system, aimed at putting an end to the commercialisation of education, would tantamount to checking the growth of an upcoming plant, he rued.
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