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Delhi to have 12 new schools, recruit 9,000
teachers
Friday May 27, 2011 08:40:31 PM,
IANS
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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.
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