Excelsior Correspondent
Jammu, May 4: In a significant move, Government has decided to establish 800 more Kindergartens in the State run schools to expand the outreach of preschool facility to maximum number of children.
“In view of the huge public response and tangible results obtained with the introduction of Kindergartens, it has been decided to start nursery classes in 800 more Government schools”, Minister for Education, Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari announced here today.
The Minister was speaking at the Cultural Conclave of Kindergartens hosted by Directorate of School Education, Jammu in the auditorium of the Teachers Bhawan Gandhi Nagar.
The event witnessed participation of children drawn from 17 Government and private Kindergarten of Jammu district and one school of Rajouri district.
Speaker Legislative Assembly, Kavinder Gupta and Minister of State for Education and Culture, Priya Sethi also attended the function.
Giving details, Syed Altaf Bukhari said that the Kindergartens in the Government schools would be run in collaboration with the Social Welfare Department.
“The initiative of starting the preschool classes in some of the selected schools of the State in the first phase has borne very good results. Realizing the need for extending the crucial facility to maximum number of our children the State has decided to cover 800 more schools in convergence mode with social welfare department”, Altaf Bukhari said, adding Education Department is working out the modalities to establish these pre-nursery schools.
Speaker J&K Legislative Assembly, Kavinder Gupta, in his address, called upon the teachers to give their best to children and make them real assets for the State and country.
He also hailed the introduction of pre-school classes in Government schools as a great move. He hoped that the education will touch new heights in the leadership of the team of the present Ministers heading the department.
Minister of State for Education, Priya Sethi described the Kindergarten concept as a major step towards achieving new heights in school education.
Expressing optimism, she said with this move the Jammu and Kashmir would achieve new highs in the education ranking among the State of the country, which is presently not so good.
“We want to come out of the closed door approach by bringing Government and private schools closer. This can be done by facilitating regular interactions between the teachers and children of the two set ups to help them share experiences and learn from each other”, she added.
Earlier, Director School Education, Ravinder Singh, in his welcome address spelled out measures for further strengthening of pre-school embellishments in the Government schools.
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