New look and numerous facilities for BMC-run school students

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Mumbai, May 5 (UNI) A Bonanza awaits students in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation-run schools, who will be provided with flavoured milk, two sets of uniforms, shoes, a tie and a scarf, a geometry box and a tiffin also.

To protect the students from the vagaries of the monsoon, they will be provided raincoats.

As part of a major revamp, the BMC has allocated Rs 1257 crore for schools for the new academic year.

Mangesh Satamkar, Education Committee Chairman of the BMC, said last year the budget for education was Rs 715 crore and the increase in the budget means more facilities for students.

The BMC has planned to change the overall look of the school students and they will be provided with new design uniforms, handpicked by the Chairman himself.

There are a total of 1188 BMC run schools in the city with 4.5 lakh students. BMC school imparts education in eight different mediums including Urdu, Marathi, Tamil and Gujarati. The students studying in these schools are generally from very poor families, who cannot afford decent meals and in order to lessen the burden on them the BMC plans to revamp the whole structure, Satamkar said.

The BMC will be undertaking repair work in many schools before the outbreak of the monsoon and from this year there will be appointments of teachers and maids for students.

The BMC has sent a proposal to the state government for starting secondary education. English medium education will be imparted in 84 of the BMC schools in junior and senior KG and first standards. With the new welfare measures, he said the number of students are expected to increase and many drop-outs are expected to return to schools.

Satamkar said ''it will be a matter of pride for students to be from a BMC school, because he will now be on par with students from private schools''.

UNI

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