Karnataka   

Education Department seeks Rs. 2,000 cr. for infrastructure

Bangalore: The Education Department has tabled its demands before the Planning Board seeking a grant of Rs. 2,000 crore to fill infrastructure gaps in elementary schools over the next five years.

Commissioner for Public Instruction G. Kumar Naik said here on Monday that the allocation sought was for facilities, including toilets, drinking water, playgrounds and libraries.

There was a proposal to make the satellite programme, EDUSAT, accessible in all districts, Mr. Naik added.

Speaking about the second phase of “Samudayadatta Shale” programme to be held on January 29 and 31, he said greater emphasis would be laid this year on reviewing the impact of programmes such as remedial teaching programme for slow learners and documentation of educational progress made.

The stress would be on educational quality rather than physical infrastructure.

The long-pending report of the high-level committee set to frame guidelines for school admissions may be out in February, Mr. Naik said.

The recommendations would insist on adopting “transparent process” in admission and have “measurable parameters” for eligibility.

The final report of the committee, set up in the last week of August to frame stringent admission guidelines, is yet to submit its report, although it was scheduled to do so by the end of October.

Mr. Naik said there had been many developments, including a Supreme Court case, which had contested the guidelines set by the Ganguli Committee in Delhi that was to be the model for the panel in Karnataka.

He, however, admitted that the new guidelines might not apply to CBSE and ICSE schools.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

Nasir has links with LeT: police
Jaitley to be BJP’s poll in-charge in Karnataka
Using technology in classrooms
Foundation adds fifth ambulance to its fleet
Jawan laid to rest
Another film being shot in Chitradurga
Labhu Ram is Chitradurga SP
Students protest against increase in fee
CPI(M) workers stage protest
Hampi being spruced up for President’s visit
‘Religious centres are lighthouses to society’
Satish Patel laid to rest
Woman kills children, commits suicide
Census of an unusual kind
Lectures on the Koran
An unusual Census under way
Education Department seeks Rs. 2,000 cr. for infrastructure
Award for sangha
Ashta Math seers’ meet deadlocked
Ananthamurthy criticises ‘insensitive’ media

Copyright © 2008, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu