New school uniforms for more than 1.15 crore students in January instead of March next year: West Bengal govt

The authorities provides 2 sets of schoolhouse uniforms to much than 1.15 crore students from Classes I to people VIII each year. A elder authorities authoritative said, “Every year, the archetypal acceptable of schoolhouse uniforms starts reaching schools successful March-April and the 2nd sets scope successful the 2nd fractional of the year, which created galore problems. Many schools failed to get the 2nd sets of schoolhouse dresses wrong December. That is wherefore the authorities medication decided to alteration the docket from 2025 onwards.”

Last week, the Chief Secretary convened a gathering with Finance Secretary Prabhat Misra, Education Secretary Binod Kumar, and galore different apical officials of the state.

A elder authoritative of the MSME section said, “Earlier, the West Bengal Government utilized to bring indispensable apparel for uniforms from Gujarat and different states, but present our authorities is self-sufficient.”

He further added, “Already, we person finalised the plan of the azygous from the National Institute of Fashion Technology, and the MSME section has started distributing the cloth needed for the intent from this week. We are expecting the archetypal acceptable of uniforms to beryllium produced wrong mid-January. Meanwhile, the Chief Secretary ordered each for owed azygous organisation to beryllium completed this November.”

While the MSME section is supplying apparel for the project, the Self-Help Groups section is assembling and making the uniforms, and the School Education section volition administer these uniforms to primary, secondary, and higher secondary schools.