Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Bhubaneswar, Sep 8:
The School and Mass Education department of the Odisha government today issued show cause notices to 195 schools having less than five students on their rolls asking them to explain why they should not be closed down.
School and Mass Education minister Debi Prasad Mishra, however, informed that the course of action will be decided only after replies to the show cause notices are received.
Mishra said students of the schools which are ultimately shut down will be accommodated in other schools within a distance of 2-3 km from them. Similarly, teachers of these schools too will be transferred to nearby schools.
The Odisha Primary Education Project Authority (OPEPA), on the basis of the information from the District Information System of Education (DISE), has asked the project coordinators of Sarva Sikshya Abhiyan in all these districts to verify the details and submit a proposal for closure of these schools by September 10, the minister informed.
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