Nagpur: Children from economically backward classes, who could not afford studying in English medium schools, can now hope to do so, as Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) standing committee on Wednesday gave its consent to sign an MoU with a NGO to run six schools.
NMC’s education department had submitted a proposal to sign memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Akanksha Foundation (AF) to run six English medium schools from the next academic session in six assembly constituencies for 20 years.
The foundation will bear 30% expenditure on salaries for teaching and non-teaching staff and also provide teaching staff to schools. NMC will provide other basic amenities and incur Rs2.66 crore cost per annum, the proposal said, and added that each school would have capacity to enrol only 60 students and impart free education from KG I to Std X.
TOI has recently reported that NMC, which has shut down 100 schools in the last 15 years, will use the buildings of 35 schools to run English medium schools. Now, mayor Dayashankar Tiwari said he will ensure all closed schools of NMC will reopen and provide quality education to poor children of the city.
Tiwari on Wednesday visited Zingabai Takli Municipal Primary and Upper Primary School and met the Save Government School Joint Action Committee. He assured them that all closed schools will start functioning soon.
“First of all, the school uniforms of the corporation will be changed, a conducive environment will be created for education. Already NMC has computer labs and art galleries in many schools. As a result, for the last four years, the students of NMC schools have been passing with 90% marks. The quality of education in the corporation schools has improved and now the children are getting quality education,” he pointed out.
The standing panel also gave its nod to extend contract of IT Craft for two more years and gave green signal to the health engineering department to entrust a firm to strengthen south sewerage zone comprising Laxmi Nagar, Hanuman Nagar, Dhantoli and Nehru Nagar zones. The firm will work 27% above the price of the project. Against Rs13.79 crore, NMC will pay the firm over Rs19.62 crore.