Soon, boys’ residential schools in remote areas

GHATSILA: The government will soon build seven boys’ residential schools in remote areas of the state to promote rural education under the Centre’s Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA). The government is already running Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) residential schools in each block of the state for underprivileged tribal girls.

State education secretary Aradhana Patnaik inaugurated a 100-bed school — the first-ofits-kind in the state — in the remote Lakhaidih village in East Singhbhum’s Ghatsila sub-division on Tuesday. The other schools will be opened in Gumla, Chatra, Dhanbad, Pakur, Hazaribagh and West Singhbhum districts.

Patnaik enrolled 100 boys for the school and presented them with a school bag each.

“Education is the backbone of development. Awareness about education among villagers can bring development in rural areas. No children in the age bracket of 5 to 18 years should be out of school,” Patnaik said. She also said the government is extending various facilities to the oppressed but without education, they are unable to take benefits of the same.