Uttarakhand Education Minister Mantri Prasad Naithani has appealed to provide Rs 15 crore for the reconstruction of 139 schools, which were completely destroyed in disaster and allocate Rs 88.56 crore for reconstruction of 159 primary schools, four CRC and 577 partially-damaged primary schools.
He made this demand while addressing in 62nd meeting of central education advisory council, which was led by Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development Jatin Prasad in Manekshaw convention hall in Delhi on Thursday. He further asked them to provide financial assistance to the State on the pattern of north eastern State i.e. 90:10 ratios. He also demanded that Union Government should pay as per the cost of construction because in hilly State cost of construction is higher.
You also ease the norms of school under RMSA i.e. three kilometer distance and 20 students per class. Following on the demand union minister of State has assured that Government will consider their request. He also suggested them to appoint yoga and physical teacher in each school. With this appointed students would be physically and mentally fit and will generate employment opportunity as well. He also appealed them to free teacher from weighing of ration under Mid Day Meal schemes. Besides it we should also make teacher free from census and other non teaching jobs because it affects education system.
He disclosed that we have constituted management committee in 17000 schools and more than one lakh members of school management committee were trained about Right to Education Act (RTE) and 49000 children were enrolled in Non government school and spending Rs 20 crore per annum under RTE. Similarly we have started 11th and 12th class in 28 Kasturba Gandhi girls schools of the State. To promote girls education State Government is giving bicycle to the girl in plains and similar amount are being deposited on the name of girl student in hills. In disaster affected areas we have distributed Rs 500 cash assistance to each students so that they can procure their books.
Union Minister for Minority Welfare K Rehman Khan and Education secretay Rajshree Bhattacharya have also expressed their views. During meeting Principal Secretary education S Raju, Director NCERT RK Kunwar, Sanskrit Education department DK Bahuguna and public relation officer Indrabhushan Badoni were present there.