The school, spread over an area of nine acres, has been built at a cost of Rs16 crore and will accommodate over 1,200 students.
Chief minister Vijay Rupani on Monday dedicated the first day of the New Year to improving girls education in the state. Rupani who inaugurated a Swaminarayan girls school in Mandvi taluka in Bhuj said that the girl child education in the state was 57% which has now reached 70% due to the efforts of the government as well as programmes like the Kanya Kedavani. "With the support of the society we will very soon take the education for girls to 100 per cent," said Rupani.
The school, spread over an area of nine acres, has been built at a cost of Rs16 crore and will accommodate over 1,200 students.
Rupani said the government will also provide 250 primary schools to the state with digital virtual classrooms. This he said was part of the government's efforts to improve digital learning in schools. Talking about the initiatives of the government, he said 57,000 government schools in the state now had new classrooms, better infrastructure including toilet blocks and drinking water facilities.
The Bhuj Swaminarayan Temple also donated Rs5 lakh to the government's Kanya Kelavani fund. Rupani said the sect had set a precedent in taking up educational and health initiatives in the state.
Rupani reminded that the Kanya Kedavani, a scheme to encourage and improve girls child participation in school and reduce the school dropout among girl students was the brainchild of prime minister Narendra Modi when he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat
It should be noted that the Kanya Kelavani programme along with the Shala Praveshotsav has in the decade since it was launched helped improve school enrollment in Gujarat. The programmes include ministers and government officials spreading out in pre-assigned districts during the opening of the school year and interacting with students and parents, encouraging them to continue education.
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