The Odisha Government has decided to make 100 new Model Schools operational in the State from the next academic session. A decision to this effect was taken at a high-level meeting presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at the State Secretariat here on Monday.
Briefing reporters after the meeting, School and Mass Education Minister Debi Prasad Mishra said a total of 1,772 employees, including 1,332 teachers, would be recruited for appointment in these Model Schools.
The process would be completed by March next year while classes would start from April, he added. It was revealed at the meeting that a new outfit, Odisha Secondary Schools Organisation, would be formed which would be headed by the School and Mass Education Minister as its president.