Prakash Javadekar meets Night School Students in Mumbai
Just a few days after assuming charge of Human Resources Development Ministry, Prakash Javadekar visited the Gopal Krishan Gokhale Night School in Dadar, Mumbai. He interacted with the students who were studying there.
#teachers should encourage the #students to #dream big and impart #life #skills. https://t.co/jMfWpSNSr7
— Prakash Javadekar (@PrakashJavdekar) July 10, 2016
While visiting the school he said that education should be inclusive and no one should be left behind. Earlier in the day, Prakash Javadekar interacted with the students of Kendriya Vidyalaya in Kochi too.
Quotes from Prakash Javadekar:
"Night schools are among the important institutions helping make education inclusive."
"Government's top priority will be to improve the conditions of night schools and zilla parishad schools."
“After meeting you, my will to work for you has strengthened" #HRD Minister @PrakashJavdekar said to the students of night school in Mumbai
— PIB Mumbai (@pibmumbai) July 10, 2016
"Education is essential for upliftment, I sincerely salute the spirit of these poor students, who are pursuing education in night schools, after putting in 8-10 hours of hard work during the day."
"After meeting you, my will to work for you has strengthened. PM Narendra Modi says work for the dailts, underprivileged and backward classes. We will study the problems of night schools and will do whatever is possible for them."
Improving night schools and Zilla Parishad schools is our priority, said HRD Minister @PrakashJavdekar in Mumbai pic.twitter.com/RLextI6zX2
— PIB Mumbai (@pibmumbai) July 10, 2016
"I myself have studied in a Zilla Parishad School. I am in a good position to understand the problems and challenges of such schools."
"I assure the students and the teachers that I will ask Maharashtra Education Minister Vinod Tawde to do his best to improve the infrastructure in nights schools and municipal schools."
School authorities talk to MHRD:
School
authorities
told
the
minister
that
they
have
been
having
100
per
cent
result
for
the
last
four
years.
Mumbai,
the
commercial
capital,
has
a
well-developed
infrastructure
of
night
schools,
where
over
15,000
students,
aged
15
and
above
are
enrolled
for
Class
8
upwards.
The city also boasts of many success stories in the form of night school students who went on to succeed as entrepreneurs, particularly in the hotel business.