Mr Pema gathered community-based organizations to visit areas and recommend which schools may be shut down and which schools in a periphery can be clubbed into one.
Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh Govt. has been renovating the entire education scenario and closing down schools with zero enrolments said Cheif Minister Pema Khandu. The number of government schools in the state has increased from only three since Independence to more than 3,000 however, the quality of education has not seen the desired rise he added.
CM Pema said on inaugurating the permanent campus of the Government College at Bomdila in West Kameng district that, "We have so far closed down about 400 zero enrolment schools across the state and decided to select one school in each of the 60 assembly constituencies to be developed as a model school with all facilities."
According to state officials, Mr Pema gathered some community-based organizations to visit their areas and recommend which schools may be shut down and which schools in a periphery can be clubbed into one.
"Let us club schools situated not at far from each other into one and focus on its development with proper infrastructure and sufficient teachers," he added.
The new permanent campus of the college is situated in the outskirts of Bomdila town, the district headquarters, in a plot of 70 acres.
The college was established in 1988 and was run in a building of the Higher Secondary school. CM thanked the villagers for donating the land for the permanent campus and said that the newly created infrastructure in a perfect ambience at a distance from the town would encourage the students to focus more on education.
Restating the state government’s commitment to improving the education scenario of the state, CM said the year 2021 has been declared as the ‘Year of Education’.
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