Srinagar: Over 14.54 lakh students are enrolled in 14376 government and private educational institutes in Kashmir valley, where during the recent unrest 32 school buildings were gutted out of which 14 were damaged fully.
Official sources said here today that there are 11766 government educational institutes and 2610 schools in the private sector with an enrolment of 8.64 lakh students and 5.90 lakh students respectively in Kashmir.
The State has made significant progress since 1961 and as per the census 2011 total literacy rate has climbed up to 68.74 per cent, they said.
They said that around 6000 aspirants in Kashmir Division appeared in screening tests for the Super50 Winter Tutorial and are studying at 10 District Headquarters and one main Centre at GHS Hyderpora.
On the developmental front, they said that 57 works under Secondary Education State Sector are presently under execution at an estimated cost of Rs 42.80 crore, out of which 10 school buildings have been completed and 47 are at different stages of execution.
While as the Government has approved 77 schools to be developed as Model Schools for which funds upto the tune of Rs 25 crore have been projected to Planning, Monitoring and Development Department, they said, adding that during the recent unrest 32 school buildings were gutted out of which 14 were damaged fully.
They said in order to foster the attention on quality education and proper utilization of manpower, rationalization was initiated by the Department which has resulted in clubbing of 2691 schools and made 779 buildings and 4718 teachers available for proper utilization.
Besides, they said 305 schools have been upgraded under RMSA scheme, while as the Department has approved construction of 44 girls hostels under RMSA at a unit cost of Rs 306.34 lakh.
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