Government to set up 1,521 primary schools

Government to set up 1,521 primary schools

From Our Correspondent

JORHAT, April 18: The Government of Assam has planned to set up 1521 primary schools comprising 27 districts of the state. The Assam Sarba Siksha Abhijan Mission has released the required funds for construction of the said school buildings in March 2010 and the construction process of the schools have been started from this month, said Assam SSA Mission director LS Changsan to The Sentinel.

Changsan also said that, presently the villages which lack primary schools have been providing elementary education by Education Guaranteed Scheme (EGS) centres of the SSA Mission to ensure education in the age group of 6 to 14. The EGS centres in the said villages will also be upgraded to primary schools under the project of the government , she added. She further said that, the government has also conceived a plan to upgrade as many as 3500 EGS centres in the state in the days ahead.

According to the official report of the Education Department, over 1500 revenue villages of Assam have been lacking primary schools on date. For want of a of primary school construction project by the government for a long time, children of these villages are deprived of elementary education across the state. But, after the enactment of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act in August 2009, the state government has taken up the matter seriously and decided to set up a number of primary schools accordingly.