In compliance with the order of State Government, as many as 502 schools of Dhamtari Municipal Corporation (DMC) and Tribal Welfare Department have been merged with the Education Department.
According to sources, the Tribal Welfare Department Assistant Commissioner and the DMC Commissioner have recently handed over the documents, properties along with their staff to the Education Department. Besides, nearly 116 schools have been shut down and the process for merging them with other schools has started.
More than 1,700 schools are running in the district. Among them, 501 were being run by the Tribal Welfare Department while only one school was run by the DMC. While the Tribal Welfare Department was running 363 primary schools, 113 middle schools, 11 high schools and 14 higher secondary schools in the district, the DMC was conducting Nathuji Jagtap Higher Secondary School.
All these schools have been merged and now they will be run by the Education Department. The Government had ordered for merging the schools after learning about less number of registered students .