(): The junior school located at Piplani Katra (Kabirchaura) in Varanasi City South assembly constituency will be developed as a smart school soon. A new building will be constructed on the campus, whose foundation stone was laid by former minister and MLA Dr Neelkanth Tiwari here on Tuesday. A few days back, Tiwari had inspected the school and promised to make it smart as the students will be imparted education through smart schooling system. Later, he instructed the Basic Shiksha Adhikari (BSA) to prepare the project in this direction and now the foundation stone of the smart school building was laid. The bhoomi pujan of the foundation stone was done in the presence of nine women. On the occasion, the MLA interacted with the children studying in the school and inquired about the facilities being provided to them. He also distributed chocolates to them. About 50 lakhs will be spent on the construction of the said building for the smart school, which will be borne from the Purvanchal Vikas Nidhi (Development Fund). Six rooms will be made in the two-storey building, where children will be taught through the smart schooling method.
In the past, two other schools, Machhodari Smart School and Rajghat Vidyalaya have been developed into smart schools in City South areas and this will be the third school. Tiwari directed the concerned officers to complete the construction work in three months and also asked the BSA to prepare a detailed project report (DPR) to make all the government schools of his constituency smart. The function was also attended by BSA Arvind Pathak, block education officers Akhilesh Srivastava and Shalini Srivastava, principal Madhu Singh, Suresh Chaurasia, Gopal Gupta, Sandeep Chaurasia, Ambarish Singh Bhola, Sanjay Keshari, Vivek Jaiswal, Indresh Singh, executive engineer of Rural Engineering Services (RES) Dilip Shukla and many others.