6,000 Model Schools to be set up at the block level

6,000 Model Schools to be set up at the block level

The Central Government has decided to set up 6,000 Model Schools at the block level, at the rate of one school per block, as benchmarks of excellence. 3500 of these schools are to be set up in Educationally Backward Blocks (EBBs) through State Governments and the remaining 2500 schools are to be set up through Public Private Partnership (PPP). The first component of the scheme in EBBs is already operational. The sharing pattern for both recurring and non-recurring expenditure of these schools is 75:25 between the Central Government and the State Governments except for the special category States, for which the sharing pattern is 90:10. So far, 434 Model Schools in 12 States have been sanctioned. The State-wise break-up of model schools sanctioned so far is as under:

This information was given by the Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Smt. D. Purandeswari, in written reply to a question, in the Rajya Sabha today

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