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Thursday, December 27, 2012

250 students begin winter coaching for Board exams in Namchi


NAMCHI, 26 Dec: MLA Namchi-Singithang, Binod Rai, visited the venue of the coaching centre of Winter Coaching-2012 under his constituency at Namchi Senior Secondary School on 24 December. This winter coaching is being organized constituency wise all over the State to provide free coaching for students appearing for class X and XII Board Examinations.
There is one centre in each constituency to provide coaching to students. This is an initiative of the Chief Minister for students mostly from rural areas and from families which cannot afford expensive tuitions within or outside the state, it was explained. The coaching has been arranged for the past three years funded by the Government of Sikkim through the Human Resource Development Department (HRDD).
Following the visit of the only winter coaching centre here at Namchi today, the area MLA, who is also a former student of the school, in his address, advised the students to take their studies seriously and also informed them about the facilities provided by the government in the education sector.
He highlighted the various facilities provided for the students and urged them to focus on their studies. Reminding the gathering of students of the commitment made by the Chief Minister he told them that providing better education to each one of them is the dream of the state government.
Joint Director, HRDD South, Bimla Rai, in her brief address highlighted the need of such coaching classes for students at the constituency level and informed that the government has provided this opportunity for the students so that they get polished following which they would be able to perform well in their forthcoming board examinations.
Adding that good and eligible teachers have been provided for this coaching, she took the opportunity to congratulate the state government for the recent Diamond State Award conferred to the state in different categories and in this context urged the students to do well in their life and be a good human resource for the state which in turn would help the state in achieving more such laurels.
The Principal of Government Senior Secondary School Namchi, BR Rai, who is also the Centre Superintendent of the coaching centre presented a brief report of the coaching class and said that no mathematics teacher has been appointed for the coaching and so far students have not shown any interest in this matter.
The Deputy Director HRDD South, DK Rai in his address highlighted on the aims and objectives of this winter coaching classes and the advantages it imparts academically to each and every student, he also encouraged the students to perform well in their studies. At present, in this winter coaching centre under Namchi- Singithang constituency which is being held at Namchi Senior Secondary School, students from 6 schools from in-and-around Namchi are attending the coaching classes namely Namchi Senior Secondary School, Namchi Girls’ Senior Secondary School, Maniram Secondary School, Rong Secondary School, Namchi New Secondary School and Sadam Senior Secondary School.
Altogether, 180 students of Class X and 70 students of Class XII from the above mentioned schools are attending this winter coaching, among which 3 are senior secondary schools. The coaching is being imparted by 13 teachers on subjects under arts, science and commerce streams. The coaching here started on 20 December and will continue till the end of January 2013 and will be held for 30 complete working days.
After the programme the area MLA Binod Rai had a brief interactive session with the teachers and the officials of HRDD South.

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