Ahmedabad: Gujarat State Education Department aims to establish 100 English secondary schools based on proposals received from various districts in recent months, sources of resources close to development.
This may be the first time the Gujarat government has carried out massive exercises to change public perceptions of government-managed schools.
The government operates around 33,000 schools in the state and 98% of them are Gujarati Middle School.
Local civilian bodies run many English high schools in the city.
Of the 106 secondary schools managed by the state government, civilian bodies in Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Letters and Rajkot run 56.
The government will establish these new schools using infrastructure at the district or taluka level and by making new teaching recruitment Contractual, said source.
The highest demand for English secondary schools comes from Aravalli Regency, where 12 such schools have been proposed, followed by Mehsana where seven schools have been proposed.
In the case of Dang, six English secondary schools have been proposed.
Ahmedabad and each letter proposed three schools.
“One of the main reasons behind this decision is that many students in Gujarat have moved from their own school to schools managed by the government in the past half a year due to Covid-19 pandemics.
Many of these students are studying In English high school, it must move to Gujarati medium because there are very few English high schools managed by the government in the state, “said an academic.
Teacher’s recruitment contracts can be proven to be a big obstacle for these schools even further, he added.
The State Education Department previously said it was aimed at providing a lifeline for a large number of students who came out of private schools during the pandemic period.
In a round of September 21, the State Primary Education Department said it would open English high school for students who had left the school financed by their own problems related to pandemic problems.
Like other government-managed schools, education will be free of school fees too.
From the time Covid-19 crashed into the state in March 2020, around 5 lakh school children in Gujarat had left private schools.
According to data managed by the State Education Department, 2.82 Lakh students left a private school in the academic year 2020-21.
A significant shift from the school financed itself to government schools can be associated with the financial crisis witnessed through the pandemic and loss of lives and many livelihoods throughout the city and rural areas.
At times like that, many parents associate from the pressure to pay an average of Rs 15,000 to RS 30,000 annual fees in the school financed themselves.