New Delhi. In UP, now the children of laborers will go to the boarding school. Atal Residential School, which is included in the dream project of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, is being built in Kaurai village of Fatehpur Sikri area. Atal Residential School construction work is being done in Agra at a cost of 71.15 crores. This school under construction will have a capacity of one thousand students. Apart from the teaching work, hostels will also be built for the students. Education will be provided to the children of registered construction workers in Atal Residential School.
The building will be ready in October
Children of construction workers registered with the Labor Department will be provided quality education in these schools, which are being prepared on the lines of Navodaya Vidyalayas, so that they can also contribute to the development of the country along with the mainstream of the society. The construction of Atal Residential School being built in Kaurai village of Fatehpur Sikri area of Agra started in May 2021. Its construction is going on fast, it is expected that the building will be ready by the end of October.
Admission process from next session
This residential school will provide quality education to the children of construction workers in the age group of 6 to 14 years by providing facilities of primary, junior high school and secondary education. Their selection will be on the basis of counselling. It is expected that in the new academic session 2023, the admission process of students will start in the school.
This will be the specialty
Atal Residential School will have 04 full time teachers, 03 part time teachers, one warden, one accountant, 4 watchman/peon, one cook and one assistant cook. There will be 5 rooms in this residential school, out of which one room will be for teachers, one room for office and three for the use of children’s education. It will have 3 toilets, provision of clean drinking water as well as uninterrupted electricity system.
Poor students will get facility
Diptiman Bhatt, Deputy Labor Commissioner, Agra Division said that the Public Works Department, Agra is looking after the construction of the building as a working organization. 90% of the construction work has been completed. He also said that through the Atal Awasiya Vidyalaya Yojana Uttar Pradesh, this scheme has been issued by the UP government to develop the working class citizens and to make them understand the importance of studies. By getting good education, he can give a new look to the pace of his life. In this, all those poor children will get an opportunity to study, who are unable to take admission in schools due to poor financial condition. The government is providing a golden opportunity to the working class people under the scheme so that they can make their future easy by getting education from one place permanently. Under the scheme, the labor families who are registered with the labor department will be provided the benefit of the scheme. Along with education, the students in the schools will also be promoted in the field of sports. Students can participate in sports of their choice. The students will be selected on the basis of counselling. Here education will be provided on the basis of CBSE and ICSE pattern. The entire responsibility of running this school has been entrusted to the Labor Department.
Schools will open in 18 circles
Atal residential schools will be opened in 18 mandals of Uttar Pradesh. Apart from Agra of Agra Division, Lalitpur of Jhansi Division, Gonda of Devipatan Manjal, Azamgarh of Azamgarh Division, Bulandshahr of Meerut, Lucknow of Lucknow Division, Kanpur Nagar of Kanpur Division, Prayagraj of Prayagraj Division, Muzaffarnagar of Saharanpur Division, Sonbhadra of Mirzapur Division, Basti of Basti Mandal, Aligarh of Aligarh Division, Ayodhya of Ayodhya Mandal, Banda of Chitrakutdham Mandal, Bareilly of Bareilly Division, Moradabad of Moradabad Division, Gorakhpur of Gorakhpur Division and Varanasi District of Varanasi Division are under construction.