South Delhi Muncipal Corporation mayor Shyam Sharma has intensified the efforts to improve educational facilities in all SDMC schools. He has sanctioned an amount of Rs.3.38 crore for expansion and reconstruction of a school under Central Zone of the Corporation. The mayor has instructed the engineering department to immediately start work and ensure its completion within the current financial year. He also directed a number of steps are being taken to provide an atmosphere more conducive for learning. Further the SDMC is also concentrating on sharpening the instinct of learning among students.
As many as 3500 students are being imparted education in Bharat Nagar SDMC primary school under ward number 193. Sharma has instructed the department concerned to expand the limited structure available in the school campus and demolish the crumbling structure situated in one side of the school to make way for additional class rooms to accommodate the students. He has asked the Education department to consult prominent educationist to have their inputs on developing the class rooms so that students would become more interested in class room activities including learning with educational kits.
The school after reconstruction will have adequate number of CCTVs, ROs for drinking water, swings, computer labs and water harvesting provisions. The mayor has asked the Education department to develop a vast green area, to set up a library and to ensure facilities for sports for the overall development of the schools. Sharma expressed satisfaction over the fact that all posts of teachers in the SDMC schools are filled and there is no vacant post now.