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Plan to set up 4 lakh government high schools

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: Vice-chairman of the National Knowledge Commission P.M. Bhargava said reservation in educational institutes could be abolished within 10 to 15 years by setting up four lakh government high schools. The high schools, which would be funded by the Union Government but run by State Governments, would provide equal opportunity to all children at the secondary education level, thus ending the need for reservation. The schools, he said, would be of the standard of central schools. Mr. Bhargava said that the Union Ministry's Education Department had also concurred with the fact that it was possible to set up the schools within a decade and end reservation.

"I spoke to the Education Secretary Sudeep Banerjee last week and he concurred with me," Mr. Bhargava told reporters.

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