New Delhi. The central government is going to develop 15,000 schools in the country as exemplary schools and for this financial provision of Rs 1800 crore has been made in the budget of the financial year 2022-23. Sources told PTI-language that the proposal has got the approval of the Finance Ministry and now the plan is awaiting the approval of the cabinet.
According to the budget document for the financial year 2022-23, a financial provision of Rs 1800 crore has been made for the plan to develop 15,000 schools in the country as model schools. Under this scheme, the government wants to develop at least one model school at each block level by 2024.
According to the document, the model schools to be developed under this scheme include 1470 schools at the elementary level and 1470 schools at the primary level. Apart from this, 6030 schools at secondary level and 6030 schools at higher secondary level will be developed as model schools.
The Ministry of Education will bring a new scheme regarding this, under which these schools will be developed. The special thing is that all these schools will be government only, which will be selected along with the states. It is worth noting that in the last year’s general budget, a plan to set up a model school in the country was announced.
Sources said that the proposal aims to develop one elementary and one primary school in each block and one secondary and one senior secondary school in each district as schools of excellence. As per the proposal, Adarsh School envisages to ensure availability of adequate resources and good infrastructural arrangements to provide diverse learning and experiences in a safe, stimulating educational environment for all students. In this, the emphasis will be on increasing school attendance and promoting basic literacy and numeracy, and school dropout will be discouraged by facilitating access to education.
Sources said that these schools will help in the implementation of the National Policy on Education (NEP) and emerge as exemplary schools of excellence in their respective fields. The education system adopted in these schools will be more practical, holistic, integrated, based on real life situations, curiosity and learner centric. These will have all facilities like smart classroom, library, skill lab, playground, computer lab, science lab etc.
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