16 Residential Schools Planned for Girls

16 Residential Schools Planned for Girls

Chennai: Sixteen residential schools will be set up for out-of-school girl students in the age group 11-14 during the academic year beginning this June.

They will be established under the Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidhyalaya component of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, a senior official told The Hindu.

The center has sanctioned Rs.5.82 crore for the project, which is expected to take shape during 2007-08. Initial allocation of Rs.1.5 crore has been released.

At present, 37 such schools function in areas identified by the School Education Department as educationally backward blocks.

Nearly 2,000 female students – dropouts and those who have not enrolled previously – are studying in these schools. About 400 of them took the Standard VIII public examination this year.

Blocks with female literacy rate below the national rural average of 46.13 per cent and gender gap indicator above the national average of 21.59 percent are identified as educationally backward.

Villages in Dharmapuri, Erode, Krishnagiri, Salem, Sivaganga and Villupuram are among the areas identified for setting up the 16 schools.

Each school will have five teachers, a cook, a watchman and helpers.

Teachers will be appointed through non-governmental organizations.

16 Residential Schools Planned for Girls

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