Tribune News Service
Amritsar, November 24
The District Education Office has received a grant of Rs 60 lakh for sports development for primary and middle schools. The department has issued instructions to all schools on how the funds are to be spent on buying sports goods and ground maintenance, though this time there is a minor relaxation in the time period allotted for using the funds.
Each primary school will receive an amount of Rs 5,000 and each middle school will receive an amount of Rs 10,000 for buying sports goods and equipment. There are 829 primary schools and 193 middle schools in the district.
“We get grant under sports development every year and this year, though delayed, the grant amount has been released to us. Given the circumstance post-pandemic and schools being shut for primary and upper primary classes, we have put no time restriction in the schools to spend the amount granted,” said Rekha Mahajan, Deputy DEO.
The amount allotted to each school has to be used within 15 days of receiving the money. “The students are not coming to schools, so the schools have been advised to manage the funds in a way that they don’t go waste,” said Mahajan.
The grant allotted under sports development to each school every year is on an average of Rs 10,000 per school. Last year, the District Education Department received the grant under sports development twice. But this year, owing to the pandemic and lockdown, the funds had got delayed. The total grant for primary schools allotted is Rs 41 lakh and for middle schools is Rs 19 lakh.
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