Minister to open new school building in Kozhikode

Education Minister P.K. Abdu Rabb will inaugurate the new building of Government Higher Secondary School in Karapparamba on Monday.

The building was built as part of the PRISM (Promoting Regional Schools to International Standard through Multiple Intervention) programme, which was recently introduced in the school.

MLA A. Pradeep Kumar, who has been instrumental in introducing the project, told reporters here on Friday that besides the building that would be a higher secondary block, a tender had been floated for a two-storey high school building as well as a multipurpose building with an indoor stadium with volley ball and badminton court, dining hall, and a kitchen.

Sanction granted

Administrative sanction has been granted for a basket ball court with gallery, toilet blocks, open air stage, compound wall, gate, a hall on the third floor of the higher secondary block, construction of the third floor of the high school block, and campus landscaping, he added.

The activities were being undertaken at a cost of Rs.7 crore that would include the Rs.5 crore sanctioned for the project as well as Rs.2 crore from the MLA’s local development fund.

Funds for renovation

Funds for renovating the old school building, library, computer lab, and science laboratory would be sourced from outside, the MLA said and added that the works would be completed in one and half years.

The PRISM project also got under way at the Medical College Campus High School where a new block with 25 class rooms is being constructed at a cost of Rs.2.5 crore from the MLA’s fund.

The Government Higher Secondary School in Nadakkavu was the first government school to undergo a dramatic change under the PRISM project.

The school was rated at the fifth position in the country by Education World recently.

With better academic standards to match the Central Schools that bagged the top four positions, the school would soon reach the number one position, the MLA said.