UP Government Targets Making 30,000 Smart Schools-Education News

The Department of Basic Education, Uttar Pradesh, announced that its target is to transform 30,000 schools in UP into smart schools. The state already has 12,000 schools with smart classes.

This announcement came right before the UP government said that it had earmarked Rs 2,000 crore for the development of primary and upper-primary schools in the state.

In a tweet, the Department of Basic Education wrote, “there is a target to provide 2 lakh tablets to 2 lakh primary and upper primary schools in UP and to turn 30 thousand such institutes into fully smart schools.” The tweet further said that 12,000 schools had been equipped with smart classes.

This is in line with the UP government’s objective to improve students’ skill development by upgrading schools from pre-primary to class 8. On March 12, Hindustan Times reported that the UP government also announced that it had allocated Rs 1,000 crores for the development of 880 primary and upper primary schools under the basic education department. The administration will transform these institutes into Mukhyamantri Abhyudaya Composite Schools.

“A provision has been made to upgrade the infrastructure facilities in each composite school for a sum of around Rs 1.42 crore,” director general, school education, UP, Vijay Kiran Anand said.

Apart from upgrading the infrastructure of schools in the state, the Department of Basic Education currently also shoulders the responsibility of filling teacher vacancies in primary and upper primary institutes.

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