Wednesday 8 January 2014

Poor strength of students:Schools to be merged

Ludhiana, January 7
Two middle schools in the district having less than 20 students are going to be merged with the nearby high schools. On the instructions issued by the Education Department, Gangagir School at Manuke village and Government Middle School, Malodaad, will soon be merged with the nearby government high schools.

The Director, Education Department, Chandigarh, has issued the instructions to the authorities in all the districts that the middle schools, which do not have more than 20 students, must be merged with nearby high schools. Besides, the schools having less than 30 students should not be allowed to give admissions to new students from the next academic session. These schools too should be merged after March 31, added the Director.

Following the instructions, Gangagir School, Manuke, will now be merged with Government High School, Bhamiapura. Presently, the middle school has three teachers and 13 students. However, the Government High School has 12 teachers and about 229 students. It has nine rooms. Gangagir School is about a km away from Government High School.

Further, the Malodaad school having three teachers with 18 students will be merged with Government High School, Sinhadaad. The latter has about 132 students and eight teachers. The distance between the two schools is about 1.5 km.

In Punjab, there are about 22 such schools where there is a poor strength of students. These schools will be merged with the nearby high schools.

As far as shifting of teachers is concerned, they will be accommodated as per the requirements in the nearby schools.

It may be mentioned here that the department has also asked the district authorities to do their best to increase the number of students in such schools.

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