Government school enrolment increasing: Goa CM Manohar Parrikar

Goa CM Manohar Parrikar announced in the legislative assembly that the number of students joining in the government schools has been increasing. While speaking on the floor of the house he said that “the number of students in government run schools has stabilized. There is a little increase in their number.”

Some fear was conveyed by RSS leader Mr. Subash Velingkar led Bharatiya Bhasha Suraksha Manch that 450 government primary schools would close in the years to come but the Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar had made a clear reference about it.Click here

CM said that “there is no fear about the 450 schools that are going to close down in five years”, to his own party legislator Nilesh Cabral who raised apprehensions that the primary schools will be closed due to fewer students.

Parrikar said the government does not intend to close any government primary schools but mostly go for amalgamation, in case where the student enrolment is less than 10 per school. “However, now I assure this house that no schools will be close down even if the number of students in the entire school is just one, unless there is an alternative school available within one kilometre radius,” he said.

“Hence, we are trying to work out a mechanism to improve the quality of government schools. We need to introduce quality education and we are working on it,” Parrikar said in a reply to a question raised by Congress Velim MLA Filipe Neri Rodrigues, who raised apprehension about increasing number of schools being closed down.

Responding to another question, Parrikar said the state government will conduct survey of the school buildings which are not in use. He said those buildings which are partially used and the remaining portion would be maintained by the state government.

 

 

Source: Internet