MCD starting English medium sections in 267 primary schools

Updated on: Wednesday, August 19, 2009

New Delhi: To provide competitive edge to students from economically backward sections, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi is starting English medium sections in 267 primary schools run by it.

One MCD-run school each in 267 municipal wards has been identified by the civic agency for this purpose and they have been rechristened as 'Nigam Pratibha Vidyalaya', officials said today.

The list of identified schools will be placed before a Standing Committee meeting of the civic body tomorrow. The 267 schools will have one English medium section for class-I in the initial phase while similar sections will be started for all the primary classes over the next five years.

'We are starting this as an experimental basis and further steps will taken after we see how successful it is,' MCD Education Committee Chairman Pritviraj Sawhney said.

'In the present era of competition, parents from economically backward sections are also very keen to provide English medium education to their wards but are being unable to do so as the fee structure in private English medium schools is too high. English medium sections in MCD schools will facilitate them,' an official of the civic body said.

The MCD at present runs 1746 primary schools in which about 9.5 lakh children are studying.

MCD starting English medium sections in 267 primary schools

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