By IANS,
New Delhi : Delhi government Friday informed that it will set up 12 new schools and recruit 9,000 teachers to enhance educational facilities in the national capital for the effective implementation of the Right to Education Act.
“We have identified 10 sites for setting up new schools. We have also decided to enhance the existing infrastructure in over 50 schools,” Additional Education Director Sunita Shukla said Friday.
Shukla added that the government has already upgraded the infrastructure in 127 schools as part of a project called “Roopantar”.
The government has constructed 529 new rooms in existing schools in 2010-11 for proper implementation of the RTE Act.
The law makes it mandatory for governments to provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of six to 14 years.