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Bhubaneswar: In an attempt to ensure better management of schools, the state government is contemplating to merge high schools with upper primary (UP) schools having low enrolment but located either in one campus or adjacent to each other.
According to sources at the school and mass education (S&ME) department, there are many upper primary and high schools having very poor enrolment of students. But they have full strength of teachers. In some other instance, these schools situated on a single campus have a few students but have shortage of teachers. Merger of such schools would improve the teaching facility, while the schools would have a good strength of both students and teachers, sources added.
The S&ME department has sought a detailed report from the director of secondary education before taking a final decision in this regard.
Sources also said the government and aided government high schools, where the student strength is less than 60 (from Class VIII to Class X), would also be merged with the nearby UP school.
Besides, government-run boys’ high schools and girls’ high schools adjacent to each other would also be merged, if the student enrolment in one of them is on the decline.
There are about 21,000 UP schools and 6,193 government and aided secondary schools and 849 recognised high schools in the state.
