New Delhi: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Friday said the government has sent a proposal yet again, on a training of government-run school teachers in Finland, to Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena, news agency PTI reported.
This comes days after a similar proposal was rejected by the LG.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also expressed hope that permission would be granted for the teachers to travel to Finland for the training programme.
The Delhi government alleged that while returning the earlier proposal, LG Saxena asked them to first conduct a cost-benefit analysis of the training programme.
Notably, earlier this week, Kejriwal, along with Sisodia, led a march to the LG's office in the national capital and the next day, he slammed him in the Delhi Assembly saying, "Who is LG? Where has he come from? I am the Chief Minister of the national capital, and I have been elected by over two crore people of the city."
Members of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), led by Atishi Marlena, protested outside the Lt Governor's residence last week over the issue.
However, the Raj Niwas said at the time that the "LG has not rejected the proposal for the training programme for primary-in-charges in Finland. Any statement on the contrary is misleading and mischievously motivated".
Sisodia, who is also the Education Minister, said in a tweet in Hindi, "The proposal to send Delhi government teachers to Finland for training has been sent again to the LG."
Quoting Sisodia's tweet, CM Kejriwal said, "I hope the Hon'ble LG will permit Delhi government school teachers to go abroad for training."
Kejriwal had earlier said LG Saxena had returned a file containing the proposal twice, asking if a cost-benefit analysis of the programme had been done.
However, the Raj Niwas, in a series of tweets, clarified that the Lt Governor had only advised the Delhi government to evaluate the proposal and assess the effectiveness of such foreign training programmes undertaken in the past.