The Central Government has accepted the request of Chief Minister Raman Singh and sanctioned opening of new Navodaya schools in 11 districts of Chhattisgarh, officials informed.
These Navodaya Schools will be opened in Balod, Narayanpur, Bemetara, Mungeli, Sarguja (Ambikapur), Balrampur, Bijapur, Sukma, Kondagaon, Gariaband and Baloda Bazar. Including this, there will be total 28 navodaya schools in all 27 districts of the state, officials informed.
Navodaya School has also been approved in Sukma district of Bastar.
Chief Minister Raman Singh will formally inaugurate Navodaya schools of six districts in a programme to be organised in village Dudhli of Balod district (Daundilohara block) on Friday.
These schools will be established in Balod, Narayanpur, Bemetara, Mungeli, Sarguja and Balrampur districts. local officers of navodaya school organisation informed today that the entrance exam for newly-approved navodaya schools has already been held in the month of January this year and process of admission will be commenced soon.
Each approved Navodaya school will have 40-80 seats as per the availability of space. Students of 6th standard will be given admission in these schools.
It may be recalled that the State Government also 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 the Chief Minister, 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).
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.
Fifteen development blocks in 13 districts had been identified in the current fiscal 2015-16.
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).
Chief Minister Raman Singh had stated that the educational expenses of the rehabilitated families of the mining-affected regions will be borne by the State Government.
The tuition fee expenses of even the higher education streams like medical, engineering, law and management in the State Government colleges will be borne by the Government, he said.
The District Mine Fund will be used for the purpose, Singh said.
He also directed the officials to utilise the funds allocated for ‘Bastar Net’ Project and the three Rail Corridor Projects.