Over 3k Gujarat schools selected for World Bank-funded Mission Schools of Excellence project – Education News

A total 3,081 government primary and secondary schools from 2,074 clusters across 33 districts and four municipal corporations have been selected for the first phase of the World Bank-funded Mission Schools of Excellence project. This includes a total of 2,575 primary and 506 secondary government schools in the state. A team from World Bank on a four-day visit to the state arrived on Tuesday and held the first round of meetings with the Education Ministers and education department officials.

The project aims to transform a total of about 20,000 government primary and secondary schools — 3,000 in first phase, 7,000 in second and 10,000 in the third phase — over the next five years and provide global facilities through Mission Schools of Excellence. Necessary deliberations on phased planning of the project were conducted during the workshop with World Bank representative Shabnam Sinha and her team. The World Bank team will visit schools in Mehsana and Sabarkantha districts during their four-day visit in Gujarat.

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