The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) on Friday began an awareness campaign across Coimbatore and Tirupur to increase admissions to government schools.
Being organised on the instructions of the Department of School Education, the campaign will last for a week.
According to Coimbatore Additional Chief Education Officer (SSA) R. Thiruvalarselvi, under this campaign, the SSA officials will visit places where the public congregate in large numbers, such as bus stands and markets, and spread information on various incentives for admitting their child to government schools.
This includes the recent move to start English medium sections in Government schools. Further, students will also be given a range of incentives from bicycles and footwear to free uniforms and laptops.
The SSA officials would also go door-to-door besides to agriculture fields and factories and attempt to bring children in these areas to the schools.
The Block Resource Teachers and their supervisors will visit all the villages. This campaign is under way in all 22 blocks of Coimbatore SSA, which also includes 7 blocks from Tirupur district.
Assistant Elementary Education Officers in the blocks have also been roped in for this campaign.
