Arunachal Pradesh education minister bats for merging schools with low enrolment

“Our imaginativeness is to supply prime acquisition to each kid from simple level itself by clubbing and merging superior level schools, and supply prime infrastructure and amended quality resources, too different interventions,” Sona said connected Friday portion visiting Yingkiong, the office of the Upper Siang district.

The Education Department conducted a three-day ‘Chintan Shivir’ successful August. During the meeting, stakeholders discussed strategies for providing prime acquisition to each kid successful the state.

“We started a ngo to scope retired to radical successful each territory of the authorities and cognize their ideas and crushed situations truthful that determination is nary hindrance during the implementation of the programmes,” Sona said.

He said the clubbing of schools needs to beryllium taken up connected a ngo mode for the brighter aboriginal of the students. Advisor to the Education Minister Mutchu Mithi said that alternatively of quantity the absorption is connected improving the prime of acquisition successful the state.

Upper Siang’s Deputy Director of School Education Duhon Tekseng, successful a practice to the minister, sought much teachers, subject watercourse for Mariyang Government Higher Secondary School, renovation of schools and teachers’ quarters.

Sona had successful July told the assembly that implicit 600 schools person been closed down oregon merged with different schools successful the state.

Arunachal Pradesh has implicit 2,800 government-run little primary, precocious primary, secondary and higher secondary schools. There are implicit 7,600 regular teachers and much than 5,900 ISSE (Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan teachers). There is simply a shortage of 414 trained postgraduate teachers (TGTs), and 186 PGTs successful the state, including successful maths and science, officials said.