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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Morning school to cope with over-admission woes



MALDA, 11 JUNE: The district inspector of schools in Malda plans to suggest that Kaliachak Girls’ Higher Secondary School authority arrange morning school for a section of class V to beat the problem of over-admission this year.

It may be noted that the school authority decided to reduce the classes to thrice a week per class V student to accommodate the more than 700 students already admitted.

As this first idea goes against the government's education policy, the district inspector of schools Mr Chinmay Sarkar has formulated another solution to the problem.

Terming the thrice a week class per student formula (which would reduce teaching time to less than the mandatory 200 days) a "violation of the government's education policy", Mr Sarkar said: “The school authorities would be asked to arrange morning school for half of the class V students. They would not be allowed to execute their resolution.”

Mr Sarkar added: “We have got a proposal from the local administration for setting up a High School just 500 m from the present girls’ school in Kaliachak. The block level education officials have selected a primary school where there is sufficient place for another school building for a High School. A new school is a must there to reduce the over-admission problem.”

Kaliachak Girls’ HS School will be getting teachers against its sanctioned post in August through SSC, the DI said. SNS

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