Government has prepared a multi-pronged strategy that includes setting up of secondary schools, girls hostels and reconstruction of buildings damaged by extremists in 35 Naxal affected districts to improve educational facilities. The HRD Ministry has accorded top priority to these districts under the new schemes like Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan , Model Schools and the Girls' Hostel Programme.<br/> Under Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan , which aims at universalising secondary education in the country by 2020, as many as 384 schools have been approved for the Naxal affected districts in 2009-10. Similarly, under Model School Programme, 32 schools out of 327 sanctioned in 2009-10 are located in these districts. Our correspondent reports another 21 model schools are also proposed to be set up in the seven Naxal affected districts of Chhattisgarh. <br/>
News On AIR | May 9, 2010 12:29 PM
Multi-pronged strategy prepared for naxal affected districts