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Education centre for poor at DPS
CHIEF MINISTER Shivraj Singh Chouhan would formally inaugurate DPS Somwati Shiksha Kendra for the poor at Delhi Public School (DPS) tomorrow.
CHIEF MINISTER Shivraj Singh Chouhan would formally inaugurate DPS Somwati Shiksha Kendra for the poor at Delhi Public School (DPS) tomorrow.
Addressing a press conference today, DPS pro-vice chairman Hari Mohan Gupt said that the programme would be held in the presence of PWD Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya from 1.30 pm on the Nepania Road premises.
The Shiksha Kendra is the first at Indore to be established by the Jagran Social Welfare Society (JSWS) after Gurudev Gupt Shiksha Kendra being established at Bhopal DPS in 2002-03.
An intake of about 80 students has been planned in the first year and nearly 65 have started attending the school from the past few days in a bid to initialize them into their new surrounding. The normal yearly intake henceforth would be 40 students.
The Kendras would have 60 per cent seats for girls and boys would fill the rest, while there would be a 15 per cent reservation for wards of class-IV employees.
The school would function from 12.30 pm to 5 pm after the regular school hours of DPS from 8 am to 12 pm. The Shiksha Kendra students would be provided with opportunity of equal level quality education in the DPS campus having world class infrastructure, thus helping the less fortunate sections of the society to evolve into responsible, dignified individuals.
These students would get to study in the same classrooms, use the same facilities of academia, culture and sports. A team of four new teachers have been specially inducted, while about nine teachers from DPS would also be giving their service at the Kendra.
The students would be provided free education, transport, stationery and other facilities required for shaping their future and making them good citizens.
A token fee of Rs 11/annum would be charged from each student so that they don’t get the feeling that they are being pampered or are from a poor background.
The best performers would be given scholarships on behalf of JSWS and the toppers would be selected into the CBSE grade from the MP Board offered in the Kendra.
