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Sheila promises more Government schools

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit announced over the weekend that her Government would spend Rs.150 crore on upgrading and constructing 200 schools in East Delhi.

Inaugurating a new school building with 104 classrooms in Bhorgarh Industrial Area of Narela, Ms. Dikshit said Government schools in Delhi had been striving hard to acquire excellence in the field of imparting purposeful education to children.

The Chief Minister, who was accompanied by Education Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely, and her son Sandeep Dikshit, who is the Member of Parliament from East Delhi, said the performance of Government schools was much better than that of a number of well-established and famous public schools in the city.

The examination results bear testimony to the remarkable improvement registered by them, she pointed out.

Ms. Dikshit said the Delhi Government would open more new schools in different parts of city.

“The Government is committed to providing more facilities in schools to equip them with modern facilities so that the children excel in studies,” she declared, adding that education was the foundation of the progress for any nation.

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