IMPHAL, June 12: Efforts to improve the education system in the State is not Imphal-centric, but has reached even the remotest corners of the State, Education minister Moirangthem Okendro said inaugurating a residential school for both boys and girls today at Bendramai, Tadubi Block in Senapati district.
The inaugural function was organised by SSA State Mission Authority, Government of Manipur. The school was the last of such schools set up one each in all districts of the State under the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan.
Speaking after the inaugural, the minister said 100 students have already been identified for the school and they will be getting free uniforms, study materials, boarding and food till they complete class VIII.
`This is my first visit to Bendramai and I found the road condition to be in a good shape,` he said before adding that this is because the public has chosen the right leaders.
Leaders who could improve the road connectivity and construct the residential schools at the right location, he continued.
Altogether 20 residential schools under the SSA and the Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya scheme have been set up all over the State and these schools will facilitate free education upto Class VIII to 2000 students, the minister asserted.
Okendro said, while the schools under the SSA will be co-educational, schools under KGBV is only for girls.
With today`™s inauguration of the school, there are now altogether 9 schools under SSA and 11 under KGBV which will facilitate children of the underprivileged section of the society like BPL and orphans, he continued.
The minister also assured to install a 5KV solar power system for the school and to make proper approach road and a playground at the earliest.
He further called for co-operation of the society in the effort to improve the education system in the State.
RD & PR minister Francis Ngajokpa who presided over the function said the Chief Minister has already instructed to connect electricity in the area by 2016.
He further lauded the Education minister and other officials for visiting the area and said bendramai is 159 km from Imphal and one of the remotest areas of the State.
He further urged the people of the area to protect the school and its properties as their own against miscreants so that the school could educate their children.
The function was also attended by Education (S) secretary H Deleep Singh, Senapati deputy commissioner Jacintha lazarus and other officials.