Jabalpur:
After taking on Home Minister P Chidambaram, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has now trained his guns on Human Resources Minister (HRD) Kapil Sibal.
Speaking in Jabalpur, Digvijaya said the HRD Ministry should shift its focus from higher education to developing the school system.
"The need at the moment is that the HRD ministry should pay more attention to the development of schools education and skill development centres rather than higher education, and I have full faith in the HRD ministry and they will look into the matter," said Digvijaya Singh.
On Friday, Kapil Sibal announced that the HRD Ministry has decided that medicine will be taught at the IITs, to facilitate research across disciplines. (
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The senior Congress leader also had a word of advice on the Naxal policy of the government and his party.
"There is a need for changes in the Indian forest act and this may help to curb the influence of Naxals on the common man, the Congress party and the other state governments need to look into the problems in the jungles," he said.