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Education is the right of every child, says Flemish Minister

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16-member team arrives in Koraput on a three-day visit

KORAPUT: Education should reach each and every child on the earth and the Flemish Government with this mission was supporting education in developing countries like India for the past many years, Frank Ubenbroki , Education Minister in the Flemish Government said here on Tuesday.

Speaking to the media in the Circuit house, he said that though higher education was supported by his Government, it was for the first time that primary education was supported and the beginning was made in Koraput district in 2005 .The project to promote complete enrolment of children in the school and to complete their primary school was supported with 250,000 Euro over three years to end in 2008, he said .

288 schools selected

The funds being sanctioned through UNICEF in the State were spent in training teachers, developing teaching-learning material and empowering the community to support the system of education in the district. For this 288 schools were selected in Dasmantpur and Pottangi blocks of Koraput district on a pilot basis, Sadrak Omol, Chief of UNICEF in Orissa, said.

A team of 16 members under chairmanship of Mr. Ubenbroki reached Koraput on Tuesday on a three-day visit. The team was received with traditional band and rituals of tribals of the district.

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