Primary and Secondary Education Minister Kimmane Ratnakar said the state government is considering a proposal to distribute shoes to children studying in government schools on the lines of Tamil Nadu government.
He told reporters here on Thursday that the Department has sought details from the TN government on the cost involved in distributing shoes to schoolchildren.
“We will work out the cost involved in the project and request CM Siddaramaiah to okay the proposal,” he said.
Ratnakar said the response to his idea of establishing model schools in headquarters of each gram panchayat and providing them with facilities on par with private institutions received good response.
According to him, in Karnataka, the teacher to student ratio varies from one region to another. The government is planning a merger of schools where students are less.
The government also wants to provide pick-up and drop facilities to attract students to government schools.
“I will be visiting Mumbai-Karnataka and Hyderabad-Karnataka regions after the budget session to study the ground reality. This will give an insight to the problems,” Ratnakar added.
'Uniforms to be Ready by May'
Rathnakar on Thursday lashed out at officials of his department for failing to supply books and uniforms to government school children on time.
The minister said that to avoid delay in the distribution of uniforms and textbooks from the next academic year, he has instructed the officials concerned to complete the tender process by September 30
“As of now, the tender is invited in the month of March and the entire process is completed by October. I don’t understand the reason for this. Schools start in June and we have to be ready with all this for our children by the first week of May next year onwards,” he said.
About 37.56 lakh sets of uniforms and lakhs of notebooks are supplied to government schools through Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan every year.
Making specific pointers to S R Umashankar, commissioner for public instruction, Rathnakar said all files pending for more than five years should be either disposed of or sent to him for clearance.
The minister inaugurated six new classrooms at Veerabhadranagar Government Higher Primary School, which was adopted by PES Group of Institutions.
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