A dedicated team has been constituted for the planning, implementation and monitoring of the project, to be completed within six months at a cost of Rs 6 crore, officials said.
The Srinagar district administration has taken a step ahead to improve the learning outcome of the public schools and to bring them at par with private schools by upgrading 180 government-run schools as smart schools. All these smart schools will be equipped with modern amenities and learning tools, the officials said.
A dedicated team has been constituted for the planning, implementation and monitoring of the project, to be completed within six months at a cost of Rs 6 crore, they said.
Under the project, a part of the Jammu and Kashmir government’s ‘Back to Village’ programme, the administration will upgrade the infrastructure of these schools and improve learning outcome through a range of interventions, including the capacity building of teachers. Some of the interventions being made are refurbishing of buildings where required, upgrading of furniture and equipment, round-the-clock power and water supplies, and establishment of libraries, science laboratories, IT labs and smart classes, the officials said.
The officials further said that the other highlights of the projects are HR management, capacity building and training of teachers, continuous evaluation and society involvement, sporting infrastructure and games, skills labs, and innovation grant.
Before embarking on the upgrade of the 180 schools -- 120 in urban areas and 60 in rural areas of the district -- the administration conducted a pilot project and modernised 25 schools during the last fiscal.
At a review meeting here, Srinagar Deputy Commissioner Shahid Iqbal Choudhary said the project was close to his heart and added that everything necessary would be done for modernising the schools.
“The district administration is keen on equipping these schools with the latest facilities and transforming them on modern lines...the aim being to improve the learning outcome in the public school domain,” Choudhary said.
The work has been started in around 100 of these schools located in both urban and rural areas of the district, he said.
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