The Chhattisgarh Government has conveyed to Union Human Resources Minister Prakash Javadekar that proposals for the opening of schools in insurgency-infested Baster region had been pending for a long time with the Union Government.
The message was conveyed by State Forest Minister Mahesh Gagda who met Union Human Resources Minister Prakash Javadekar in New Delhi recently.
He requested the Union Minister to sanction 'Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya' and Kendriya Vidyalaya' at remote Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh.
The district adjoins Telangana and Maharsahtra States. It is a very backward and remote district. The district is insurgency affected and lags in developmental activities.
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).