The State Government has approved of opening a hostel of 500-seat capacity in Dharamjaigarh block of Raigarh district, officials informed.
Tribal and Scheduled Caste Development Department has sanctioned construction of hostel building in Block Headquarters Dharamjaigarh.
Meanwhile, the Government has also upgraded four primary schools of Kondagaon district into middle schools.
This includes Government Primary School Hathkeli, Government Primary School Bade Kurusnar Patelpara, Government Primary School Borgaon and Government Primary School Chema in Kondagaon block.
Five posts for each school i.e. total 20 posts have been sanctioned, as per the provision in School Education Department's budget of current fiscal year 2016-17.
The State Government has approved opening of a 500-seater hostel in insurgency infested Sukma district of Bastar region. It may be recalled that the State Government is preparing a master plan to construct 500-seater hostels in all the 85 tribal development blocks during the next three years.
The sanctions are meant for 250-seater hostels for tribal boys and 250-seater hostels for girls. Twenty-eight Development blocks had already been selected for the purpose. The hostels will provide accommodation to about 42,000 tribal students.
School Education Minister Kedar Kashyap had stated earlier that on the directives of Chief Minister Raman Singh a master plan is on the anvil to make education accessible to the depressed castes and classes.
Fifteen development blocks in 13 districts had been identified for constructing the hostels.The blocks selected are in districts of Gariabandh , Rajnandgaon, Koriya, Raigarh, Balrampur-Ramanujganj, Surajpur, Bastar , Kondagaon , Narayanpur , South Bastar (Dantewada) , Sukma , Bijapur and North Bastar (Kanker).