Government Schools: Transfer of over 7k students to government schools with fewer students | Gurgaon News
Gurgaon: As many as 7,349 students from government schools across the state will be shifted to other government schools where the strength has fallen to less than 20.
Though the government has asked the department of education to ensure that students are shifted within a range of one kilometre, several students are being asked to shift farther away.
The government is planning to provide conveyance for the transfer.
The department had last year asked the district education officers to send information of schools with low strength and 832 such schools were identified. “Among the list of students who are to be shifted to nearby schools, there are several who will have to go farther than a kilometre. Now we have to decide whether or not they should be shifted or if we can provide a commuting facility,” an official from the department said.
Opposition parties had raised questions regarding the decision to merge the schools.
Chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar and education minister Kanwar Pal Gujjar, post the concerns, announced that the government will provide transportation facilities to students who will have to shift farther. About the fall in students’ strength, a member from the teachers’ association said, “There are many government schools in the state where there is a shortage of teachers due to which parents don’t enroll their children. Further, if a school has a lesser number of students, parents rather send their children to local private schools in the vicinity.”
Last month, the government announced that students of government schools who live outside the radius of one kilometer will soon get free conveyance facilities from the state. The department of school education is set to release the budget for the conveyance facility through the school management committee (SMC) for one of the blocks in Gurgaon under the pilot project.
Though the government has asked the department of education to ensure that students are shifted within a range of one kilometre, several students are being asked to shift farther away.
The government is planning to provide conveyance for the transfer.
The department had last year asked the district education officers to send information of schools with low strength and 832 such schools were identified. “Among the list of students who are to be shifted to nearby schools, there are several who will have to go farther than a kilometre. Now we have to decide whether or not they should be shifted or if we can provide a commuting facility,” an official from the department said.
Opposition parties had raised questions regarding the decision to merge the schools.
Chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar and education minister Kanwar Pal Gujjar, post the concerns, announced that the government will provide transportation facilities to students who will have to shift farther. About the fall in students’ strength, a member from the teachers’ association said, “There are many government schools in the state where there is a shortage of teachers due to which parents don’t enroll their children. Further, if a school has a lesser number of students, parents rather send their children to local private schools in the vicinity.”
Last month, the government announced that students of government schools who live outside the radius of one kilometer will soon get free conveyance facilities from the state. The department of school education is set to release the budget for the conveyance facility through the school management committee (SMC) for one of the blocks in Gurgaon under the pilot project.