Friday, August 13, 2010

Establishment of Model Schools


Establishment of Model Schools

17:36 IST


            The Central Government has decided to set up 6,000 Model Schools at the block level, at the rate of one school per block, as benchmarks of excellence.  3500 of these schools are to be set up in Educationally Backward Blocks (EBBs) through State Governments and the remaining 2500 schools are to be set up through Public Private Partnership (PPP).  The first component of the scheme in EBBs is already operational. The sharing pattern for both recurring and non-recurring expenditure of these schools is 75:25 between the Central Government and the State Governments except for the special category States, for which the sharing pattern is 90:10.  So far, 434 Model Schools in 12 States have been sanctioned.  The State-wise break-up of model schools sanctioned so far is as under:

Number of Model Schools Sanctioned

S.No.
State
No. of Schools
1.
Bihar
105
2.
Chhattisgarh
72
3.
Himachal Pradesh
5
4.
Jammu & Kashmir
19
5.
Karnataka
74
6.
Madhya Pradesh
33
7.
Mizoram
1
8.
Nagaland
11
9.
Punjab
21
10
Tamil Nadu
18
11.
West Bengal
20
12.
Gujarat
55

Total
434

            This information was given by the Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Smt. D. Purandeswari, in written reply to a question, in the Rajya Sabhatoday.

SKS/Hb



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