Punjab Governor and UT Administrator Shivraj Patil on Monday accorded administrative sanction for the construction of two four-storey Government High schools at an estimate cost of `11 crore 53 lakh and `11 crore 78 lakh respectively.
The schools will be developed at village Dhanas with the objective of upgrading the educational infrastructure in the area on a long term basis.
The decision to construct two schools has been taken to provide education to the children of the allottees of the flats who will soon be handed over possession of flats in Dhanas under the slum rehabilitation scheme of the UT Administration.
The UT Education Department has estimated that approximately 5000 children of the allottees in 8448 Small Flats Scheme, would require schools post their re-location in close vicinity of Dhanas.
About 3000 children would be in the classes upto primary level.
In a meeting held recently under KK Sharma, Adviser to the Administrator, a decision was taken to accommodate all the children of the beneficiaries of the reconstructed flats in the interim period in the existing schools in village Dhanas. It has also been decided to utilize few of the constructed flats for the Anganwaris and to meet other immediate needs of the social infrastructure in the area.