UP Government targets making 30,000 smart schools

The Department of Basic Education, Uttar Pradesh, announced that its target is to transform 30,000 schools in UP into smart schools.

Another ambitious target the department has set includes providing one tablet each to 2 lakh primary education schools in the state.

The department claims that there has been significant progress in this regard. The state already has 12,000 schools with smart classes.

This announcement came right before the UP government said that it had earmarked Rs 2,000 crore for the development of primary and upper-primary schools in the state.

This is in line with the UP government’s objective to improve students’ skill development by upgrading schools from pre-primary to class 8.

On March 12, Hindustan Times reported that the UP government also announced that it had allocated Rs 1,000 crores for the development of 880 primary and upper primary schools under the basic education department.

The administration will transform these institutes into Mukhyamantri Abhyudaya Composite Schools.