By TCN News
New Delhi: Government is building schools, classrooms and hiring teachers to bridge the infrastructure gaps. Lack of proper infrastructure is the primary reason for the Muslims lagging behind in the education.
Minister for Human Resource Kapil Sibal informed the Rajya Sabha last Friday that the govt has opened 16,391 new Primary Schools and 9,345 Upper Primary Schools in 88 Minority-Concentration Districts (MCDs). Also 1,70,925 additional classrooms have been constructed and posts for 1,34,203 teachers sanctioned.
Under the scheme of Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA), which provides coverage of special focus groups viz. girls’, children belonging to Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Other Backward Classes (OBC) and educationally backward Minorities, 9636 secondary schools have been approved, out of which 906 have been approved in Minority Concentration Districts (MCDs); Out of 3609 Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBVs) sanctioned, 490 KGBVs have been sanctioned in blocks having over 20% Muslim population, of which 475 are operational.
A sub-Committee on Girls’ Education of the National Monitoring Committee for Minorities’ Education has also been constituted to identify the factors impeding Girl Education in Minority communities and suggest measures to counter them, ways and means to enhance quality teachers for girls in Minority Concentrated Areas and to develop infrastructure for enhancing participation of girls belonging to Minority Communities in educational institutions.