School and Mass Education Minister Samir Ranjan Dash laid foundation stone of an Adarsha Vidyalaya in Dahipala village under Tiruna Panchayat in Naugaon block on Monday.
Addressing public at the foundation stone laying function, Minister Dash said the Adarsha Vidyalaya aims to provide qualitative education to rural students as compared to private schools in urban areas. Moreover, the CBSE type education would be provided to the students through English medium, the Minister said. For admitting into an Adrasha School, the students would have to appear an entrance test and then the selected ones would get entry in the school, the Minister revealed. MLA Prasanta Muduli chaired the meeting and said this was the second Adarsha School in Jagatsinghpur district.
The Naugaon students would be benefited after establishment of the institution, he added. Among others, Jagatsinghpur MP Dr Rajashree Mallick, Naugaon block chairman Jagannath Das, district education officer Niranjan Behera, DPC Sapan Kumar Jena, BDO Rashmi Rekha Mallick and Tehsildar J Kalpana, Panchayat samit members and Sarpanchs were present.