Overview

• At a June 20 press conference in Lucknow, Yadav called the policy a calculated effort to deprive poor and marginalized children of education.
• He warned that merging and shutting hundreds of under-enrolled schools will force rural pupils into lengthy commutes or push them out of the system entirely.
• The former chief minister highlighted that more than 200,000 vacancies in the state education department persist due to a lack of fresh recruitment drives.
• Yadav criticized the rollout of a digital attendance system for teachers as poorly planned and designed to harass rather than support educators.
• He pledged that a Samajwadi Party government would reverse the mergers and prioritize meeting teachers’ long-standing demands if returned to power.