AMARAVATI: Chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy will dedicate the ZP School at Pothavaram village in East Godavari district which has been renovated under Nadu-Nedu scheme, on Monday. The chief minister will also launch the second phase of Nadu-Nedu and distribute Jagananna Vidya Kanuka to children.
The state government has spent close to Rs 4,000 crore to convert 15,000 schools into ultra-modern educational institutions.
Public schools were renovated with green chalk boards, LED tubelights, fans, RO units for drinking water, colourful paintings, kitchen for mid-day meal scheme and compound wall.
Washrooms with running water facility is the highlight of the modernization project.
“It is a surprise for me to see the transformation of public schools. The present generation children are so fortunate. I would love to go to school had such an opportunity is given by God,” said a former vice-chancellor of Andhra and Nagarjuna Universities, Dr V Bala Mohan Das.
He said that investing to strengthen the government schools needs of lot of courage.
He said that schools modernization had influenced the children so much as the enrolments were increased by 6.63 lakh students in the last two years while about 5.62 lakh students were dropped out of the schools during 2014-19.
