Kolkata: The West Bengal education department will launch a new initiative — ‘Paray Sikshalay’ (neighbourhood school) — soon. Under the initiative, students of primary and pre-primary state-run schools will be provided lessons in open spaces, according to a state government official here on Sunday.
Following approval for the project from state secretariat ‘Nabanna’, the state government would rope in para-teachers and primary school teachers to impart elementary education to students of classes I to V.
“Children have long been deprived of tutorial lessons owing to the COVID-19 pandemic-induced restrictions. We have now decided hold classes on open ground,” a state government official was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
Students would be encouraged to take part in extracurricular activities such as elocution and painting, besides elementary education, added the official.
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