Giving signs that the ambitious PRISM (Promoting Regional Schools to International Standards through Multiple Interventions) project initiated by A. Pradeep Kumar, MLA, is gaining momentum in the district, one more school in the city witnessed the inauguration of a newly constructed facility on its campus under the project on Monday.
A Rs.1.65-crore block for higher secondary section inaugurated at Government Higher Secondary School, Karaparamba, by Education Minister P.K. Abdu Rabb is only one of the several infrastructural additions promised to the school under the project. The State budget had allocated Rs.5 crore for the development of the school under the scheme while Rs.2 crore had been granted from Mr. Pradeepkumar’s Asset Development Fund. Besides the new block, the school will get, among other things, a three-storey building for its high school classes, a new library premises, a multi-purpose indoor stadium, dining hall, a hi-tech kitchen, a basketball court, compound wall and besides landscaping on its 4.25 acres of land.
Maintaining that the construction work on the remaining facilities would be completed in two years, Mr. Pradeepkumar, who presided over the inaugural ceremony, said that the students and teachers should, however, begin work to improve their academic standards even before the infrastructure development took place.
Nadakkavu schoolGovernment Vocational Higher Secondary School for Girls, Nadakkavu, here had been given an infrastructural overhaul with a financial aid of Rs.15-crore from Faisal and Shabana Foundation.
Mr. Pradeep Kumar said more schools in the district to be included in the PRISM project. “This project (PRISM) has all the potential to script a bright new future for all the government and aided schools in the State.”
