Summary
Under the programme, identified government schools will be established with audio-visual classrooms and connected with partner private schools
To provide safe transportation facilities for students in educational institutions and ensure that girl children do not drop out due to lack of safe and secure transport
The Haryana government plans to connect government and private schools through twinning programmes for students to learn from each other, Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar said while presenting the budget estimates for 2022-23 in the state assembly on March 8.
Under the programme, identified government schools will be established with audio-visual classrooms and connected with partner private schools, said Khattar. These schools will organise shared training and learning resources, he added.
“I hope that the twinning programme will help in bringing society together to enable shared learning across institutions,” he said.
Khattar also said the government plans to start a new school health programme which proposes to screen 25 lakh school children twice a year and it will be launched from the next academic session.
To provide safe transportation facilities for students in educational institutions and ensure that girl children do not drop out due to lack of safe and secure transport, the government will start Safe and Accessible Transport: Haryana Initiative (SATHI).
This facility will be provided to all girl children studying in government institutions, including senior secondary schools, colleges, Industrial Training Institutes, polytechnics, medical, para-medical and nursing institutions. The scheme will be notified in April, he said.
In the health and medical education sector, for which he allocated Rs 8,925 crore, Khattar said all sub-divisional level hospitals located at a minimum distance of 40 km from the nearest district hospital will be upgraded to 100 bed hospitals.
By 2025, the number of graduate seats in medical colleges of Haryana would be increased to 3,035 from 700 in 2015, said Khattar, who also holds the finance portfolio.
In order to attract medical graduates to government service, a decision has been taken to reserve 40 per cent seats in post-graduate medical courses in government medical colleges for doctors in government services.
Last updated on 09 Mar 2022
