HRDD South convenes coordination meeting

LOW ENROLMENT MAY LEAD TO 14 PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN SOUTH DIST SHUTTING DOWN
NAMCHI, 30 Aug: Human Resource Development Department, South District organized a coordination meeting with heads of different schools, chairpersons and School Managing Committees today here at Community Hall. Area MLA Binod Rai was present as the chief guest accompanied by Namchi Municipal Council vice chairman NH Ansari as special guest.
HRDD (S) Joint Director, Bimla Rai, explained that the meeting was organized to understand the problems in running of schools and the functioning of SMC and SMDC. She informed about the grants and aids from the government and said that these should be used in the proper manner.
She further informed that enrolment at the primary level of education in South district was decreasing by the year and that 14 primary schools of South district are on the verge of closing down due to low number of enrolments.
Though the government has provided every possible facility along with infrastructural development but the enrolment in primary level education is continuing to drop. This, she said is the biggest challenge for the school heads, teachers and the administration and the department needs full cooperation from the school heads, teachers and SMC members.
Chief guest MLA Binod Rai in his address said that the present state government has given high priority to Human Resource Development and is investing 20% of the state’s budget towards quality education in the state.
Speaking on poor enrolment in government primary schools, the MLA urged all teachers and administration to provide quality education at par with private schools. He further urged teachers to take their job seriously.
During the programme the heads of schools were also provided with grants from the department.
The programme was also addressed by VC NMC, NH Ansari, Adhakshya (S) BM Rai, Deputy Director HRDD (S), PR Bista while the programme was also attended by AEOs and officers from HRD Department.