The education department is claiming that 44,874 new students were enrolled by the schools in the State on ‘School Chalo Abhiyan’ which was organised on Wednesday.
The Primary education Director Seema Jaunsari said that Pithoragarh with 8,014 new admissions topped the list of districts on the day while Chamoli with 875 enrollments in Primary schools and 416 enrollments in Upper Primary School had the least number of admissions.
She claimed that with the inception of model schools in state the outlook of parents in the State towards the government schools has undergone a change. The department has also decided to organise such drives on sixth day of every month. All senior officers of the department were entrusted with task of visiting schools in the area assigned to them on the day of drive.
The teachers were directed to target all the out of school children between age group 6 to 14 for enrollment in the schools. The department had initiated similar drive last year in which more than 25,000 students were admitted in the schools.