AMC to start mobile schools

The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has decided to start mobile Schools for children of the poor to bring education to their doorsteps.

The city primary education committee has decided to run mobile Schools for one year starting from Thursday to teach 28 selected children identified at Ramapir na Tekra in the Nava Wadaj area.

The School on Wheels project of the AMC has been launched with a budget of Rs 15 lakhs to teach the children of deprived class and those engaged in child labour.

School board chairman Kaushik Mehta said India has 16 crore child labourers and only 6 crores manage to reach schools. "We have taken a small step to inculcate the habit of studying among such children so that they start enrolling themselves in regular classes," he said.

The 28 children selected will be admitted to Class 1 and 2 and given education in an informal manner. The students who get through both the standards will be admitted in the regular classes of the municipal schools in Class 3. "If 10 pupils get through it will be a success for us," he added.

Mr Mehta said if the project goes well the board will start a mobile school at Behrampura.

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