More primary schools being established
December 11th, 2007
Following is an excerpt from a news report in New Indian Express.
The State Government will open 933 primary and 708 upper primary schools in the current financial year.
The new schools will be located in areas having no schools as per the national parameters of having one primary school within 1 km radius and an upper primary school within 3 km radius.
… 449 primary schools and 392 upper primary schools had already been operationalised and the remaining schools will function by January-end.
About 300 centres under the Education Guarantee Scheme (EGS) has been converted to primary schools while a few primary schools have been upgraded to upper primary schools.
The Government has made a budgetary provision of Rs 120 crore for the new primary schools and Rs 41 crore for upper primary schools.
Each of of the new schools will be given a financial assistance of Rs 4.80 lakh for infrastructure development.
The funds will be provided to the Orissa Primary Education Programme Authority (OPEPA).
The State has 34,953 primary schools, 3,979 upper primary schools and 12,376 nodal schools having both elementary and upper primary classes.
Two teachers will be appointed to each new primary school in the first year while each upper primary school will have three teachers.
While education volunteers working in the EGS centres converted to primary schools will be absorbed, preference will be given to local youth during appointment of teachers in these new schools.
Entry Filed under: K-12