Government high school students to have better facilities

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Government high school students to have better facilities

COIMBATORE: Nearly 50,000 students of Government high schools will have better infrastructure if the proposal sent by the Education Department here were to fructify.
The department has sought Rs. 44 lakh from the Central Government for each of the 16 recently upgraded high and higher secondary schools to add classrooms, laboratories, etc.
The sanction for the proposal sent in December last is expected before the end of the current financial year.
The Department will also ask the Government for Rs. 4 lakh each to take up repair work in 54 schools. The proposal will be sent by the end of March.
Sources in the Department say that apart from the infrastructure work, the Department will give Rs. 40,000 each to all the 156 high and higher secondary schools in the district to purchase laboratory equipment, books for library and periodicals.
This grant will be provided every year as long as the Government sanctions funds under the Rashtriya Madhyamik Siksha Abiyan (RMSA), a scheme aimed at improving the quality of secondary education.
As part of the quality-improvement programme, the Department also conducted an in-service training programme for teachers in computers, 'Advanced Learning Methodology-Plus' and e-learning. The aim was to make the teachers operate computers so that they will be in a position to teach students using computers in the next academic year, the sources add.