Ranchi: Chief minister Hemant Soren on Friday directed officials of the department of higher and technical education to set up schools in all the five divisions of Jharkhand next year that will be at par with the CBSE-affiliated ones.
Soren asked the officials concerned to set up the necessary infrastructure on a war footing in the new schools. He also directed them to ensure periodic training of teachers across all the 35,000 government schools in a bid to improve the quality of education, a statement issued by the state public relations department said. Soren also asked the department officials to tie up with premier coaching institutes to impart training to engineering and medical aspirants from the state-run schools. The tie up will be done under the state’s flagship Akasha scheme, the statement read.
The statement added that the copies supplied to the students of government schools will be produced by inmates lodged in jails across Jharkhand. Some of the pages in the copies will have photographs covering a wide range of social causes and thereby create awareness among the students regarding them.