Estimates of 11 thousand 375 buildings uploaded on the portal of School Education Department
Instructions to prepare estimates for repair and construction of additional rooms after conducting survey of abandoned school buildings, ashrams, hostels and uploading them in the portal in a week
Books, uniforms and free cycle distribution in schools from the first day of the new education session
Raipur, 28 March 2023
The new education session of schools will start from 16 June 2023. Principal Secretary, School Education Department, Mr. Alok Shukla has given instructions to all district collectors to complete the priority schemes of the department before the start of the new education session. Renovation work of school buildings has been asked to be done before June 15, 2023. Instructions have been given to get all the left out school buildings, ashrams, hostels etc. surveyed and estimates for repair and construction of additional rooms immediately uploaded on the departmental portal in a week. Books, uniforms and free cycles for the eligible girls in all the schools have been asked to be compulsorily distributed to the eligible students on the first day of the new academic session starting on June 16, in the month of May-June.
Principal Secretary School Education Dr. Alok Shukla has said in a letter issued to the collectors that 247 Swami Atmanand excellent English medium schools and 32 Swami Atmanand Hindi medium schools are running in the state. Arrangements have also been made for students studying in Hindi medium in Swami Atmanand excellent English medium schools. In this context, it has been decided to start a large number of Swami Atmanand Excellent English Medium Schools before the start of the new education session. It has been decided by the District Collectors to start 398 Swami Atmanand Excellence Schools. Its list has been uploaded on the portal of the department. DMF, renovation work of all the school buildings included in this list. To be done from CSR and other types of funds available at the district level. So that this work is completed before the commencement of the next academic session. In the budget proposal presented before the Vidhan Sabha for the year 2023-24, 101 Swami Atmanand Excellent English Medium Schools have been approved. Some of these schools are not included in the schools proposed by the collectors. Renovate the buildings of these schools and upload them on the portal of the department.
Principal Secretary School Education has told the collectors that the department is trying to start the Swami Atmanand Excellent School announced by the Chief Minister after obtaining approval from the Finance Department and start it from the new academic year starting from June 16. That’s why such Swami Atmanand Excellent English Medium School which has been announced by the Chief Minister and has not yet been included in the budget and which is also not included in the 398 schools proposed by the collectors. For the renovation of the buildings of these schools, after making a map from the architect, the work should be started immediately and complete preparations should be made to start from June 16. The approval for the setup of all these schools will be issued with the consent of the Finance Department in the beginning of April after the budget is passed. Here, the appointment of English medium teachers is also to be done by the collectors before June 16. Start preparing for this from now.
So the work of demolition of those buildings should also be done immediately. In schools where the enrollment is more and the number of rooms is less, then approval for additional rooms should also be given. All this work should be done under ‘Chief Minister’s School Jatan Yojana’. Sufficient funds are available for this. Detailed instructions for the works to be done under the scheme have been issued earlier. On the basis of the estimate of 11 thousand 375 buildings uploaded by the districts on the departmental portal, administrative approval has also been issued by the Director Public Education and Managing Director Samagra Shiksha. An amount of Rs 200 crore has been released as the first installment for these works. The next installment will be given after spending 70 percent of the released amount.
In the districts where repairable buildings and the proposal to construct additional rooms have been left out despite the number of registered buildings being high, survey of all school buildings, ashrams, hostels etc. Uploaded on It should be kept in mind that the approval of the amount required for the repair work and demolition should be obtained, so that no dangerous building remains after the completion of this work. Action should be taken as per the instructions issued regarding the implementation and monitoring of the scheme. Estimates for repair and construction of additional rooms of all the remaining school buildings should be uploaded on the departmental portal within a week.
Books, uniforms, and cycle distribution should be started from the first day of the new academic session itself. By continuous monitoring in this regard, arrangements are being made by Director Public Education that books, uniforms and free cycles are delivered to eligible girls in all schools in the month of May-June.
