The Union cabinet has approved the setting up of 50 new Kendriya Vidyalayas
under Civil and Defence sectors all over the country. According to a
statement from Union government, once the proposed Kendriya Vidyalayas
(KVs) are fully functional they will provide quality education to
approximately 50,000 students.
Union Minister Arun Jaitley, while
announcing the decision, said that these new schools will be set up in
areas that are hotbeds of left wing extremism, as well as in places with
heavy deployment of Central Reserve Police Force troops or with high
concentration of railway employees.
Currently, there are over 12,000 KVs across the country and three abroad.
According to KV officials, Rs. 1,579.9 crores will be spent in next five years on construction and staff salary for the 50 new KVs, PTI reported.
"While Rs. 1,241 crore will be for building construction, the remaining Rs.
338 crore will be for staff salary. The teachers and staff requirement
will be met through deputation and contractual employment for the time
being and till the formal recruitment is done," a senior official told
PTI.
The
new KVs will be set up at Gaya and Supaul in Bihar, Sonitpur and
Darrang in Assam Darrang, Bilaspur and Kondagaon in Chhattisgarh,
Yamunanagar, Gurgaon and Sonepat in Haryana, Agar-Malwa, Alirajpur,
Anuppur, Mandsaur and Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, Coimbatore, Tiruppur,
Shivgangai and Madurai in Tamil Nadu, Sepahijala in Tripura, Varanasi,
Fatehpur, Hamirpur, Lakhimpur Kheri, Agra and Behraich in Uttar Pradesh,
Udham Singh Nagar and Champawat in Uttarakhand.
The KVs will also
build in Siligudi in West Bengal, Koderma, Sarai Kelakharsawan and West
Singhbhum in Jharkhand, Belgaum and Bengaluru in Karnataka, Pratapgarh
amd Dausa in Rajasthan, Guntur in Andhra Pradesh, Anjaw, Namsai and
Upper Subansari in Arunachal Pradesh, Mandi in Himachal Pradesh, Doda in
Jammu and Kashmir, Ernakulam in Kerala, Gadchiroli in Maharashtra and
Keonjhar, Ganjam, and Rayagada in Odisha.
Source:www.ndtv.com
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