Goldenrock KV set to start functioning from next year
Goldenrock Railway Workshop premises in Tiruchi is all
set to have a Kendriya Vidyalaya from the academic year 2014-15,
fulfilling a long-pending demand of the people.
To
be sponsored by the Indian Railways, it is the only central school
sanctioned for Tamil Nadu for 2014-15. To begin with, the school will
have classes from 1 to 5. The intake is expected to be 40 students per
class.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
(CCEA) has approved opening of 54 new Kendriya Vidyalyas (KVs) at its
meeting held in Delhi recently.
These new central schools will be opened across 17 States and will be located in 53 districts, according to official sources.
The
Ministry of Human Resource Development has given its green light for
the new school under civil sector. There are two KVs in Defence Sector –
one at Ordnancy Factor Estate and another at nearby Heavy Alloy
Penetrator Project township.
According to the
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sanghatan norms, the land has to be promoted by the
sponsoring agency and the sanghatan will take care of expenditure
towards buildings and posting of teachers.
The school
at Goldenrock Workshop has been the demand since the wards of the
Central government employees are required to travel more than 20 km to
the existing KVs.
In the recent years, the number of
applicants to the KVs have increased manifold. The new KV will be able
to accommodate children of not only the Central government employees,
but also the wards of the employees of Airport Authority of India,
besides Railway employees.
The Railways had provided
the premises of Railway Mixed School in the Goldenrock Township for the
temporary functioning of the new Kendriya Vidyalaya.
A.
Devarajan, advisor and spokesperson of Kendriya Vidyalaya Parents
Association, while thanking the sanghatan for conceding more than a
decade-old demand, said that when fully functional, this school would
provide quality education.
He urged the sangathan to take steps for creating the required infrastructure for the new school immediately.
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