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A+ A-New Delhi: Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia here on Saturday urged the central government to make a law to allocate 6 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP) for education. The policy’s preamble should state “providing good quality education would be the responsibility of the government through the government schools,” Sisodia said. Sisodia said, “the quality of education provided in government schools should be at par with the private schools. Going to private schools should just be an option, not a necessity due to the lack of quality education in government schools.”Stressing the need for providing quality education, he said, “Only five per cent of children get access to quality education, the rest 95 per cent have been getting average quality education. It is the job of the government to provide education to all children.”Opposing the proposal of private education board as a “dangerous idea” , he said, they would promote private schools and further dilute the government responsibility in school education..