Chief Minister Raman Singh will be inaugurating works being started for a proposed ‘Education City’ to be built at Saddu locality in Raipur on March 4 at a cost of Rs 20 crores, officials informed.
The Education City is to be developed by State Tribal and Scheduled Caste Welfare Department, officials informed.
The ‘Education City’ would also comprise a 500 seat residential hostel and would be built in a sprawling 18 acre campus.
The campus would also comprise a computer lab and smart classes. The campus would be developed like an 'Oxy Zone'.
On the other hand, Chief Minister Raman Singh last year had also presided over a meeting in which a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the State Government School Education Department and Social service organization Sri Aurobindo Society.
New experiments will be carried on in the teachings in various schools. The curriculum will be based on the special needs of the school children, officials had informed.
A number of programmes will be carried on depending upon the emotional and psychological needs of the children in schools. Training programmes also will be held for two lakh teachers from 50,000 primary and middle-level schools, they had informed.
The first phase will be completed within fifteen months period in Raipur district primary schools.
The Chief Minister said that this is a significant step in improving the quality of education schools and appreciated the efforts of School Education Department.
Singh assured the Society members that State Government will extend all support for the effective implementation of the project. New techniques will be imparted to the trainees.
Notably, with a view to improving quality of education delivery in insurgency-infested Bastar region, the Chhattisgarh Government has also decided to introduce hi-tech tools for imparting education in Science, Mathematics and English in Government primary schools.
The Government would be using audio-visual equipment in the schools while also introducing a number of ‘self learning modules’, officials informed.
The district adjoins Telangana and Maharashtra States. It is a very backward and remote district. The district is insurgency affected and lags in developmental activities.
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 approvals 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 for constructing the hostels.The blocks selected are in districts of Gariaband , Rajnandgaon, Koriya, Raigarh, Balrampur-Ramanujganj, Surajpur, Bastar , Kondagaon , Narayanpur , South Bastar (Dantewada) , Sukma , Bijapur and North Bastar (Kanker).