Civic body drive to take children to classroom

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) education board will soon undertake a drive to ensure that all students go to schools. A recent survey by the education board had revealed that 664 city students are not enrolled in schools. To encourage parents to send their wards to school,a team of the board will hold meetings at various localities. “Every teacher in the civic school have been given the responsibility of visiting 25 houses to ensure that children are enrolled,” said Municipal Commissioner Mahesh Pathak.

The PMC education board will have a mobile van school for street children,he said. The project begins next month.

In another initiative,the PMC will start an e-learning project at marathi-medium Kasturba Gandhi School in Koregaon Park. “The e-learning project would be started in other schools as well,” he said. Taking up the health concerns of civic students,Pathak directed all teachers and headmasters to undertake cleanliness drives at their schools. “The public toilets should be cleaned before the school starts on June 15,” he said adding the school staff should take help of civic body staff. The maintenance work in the schools should be done before the schools reopen,said education board chairperson Sangeet Tiwari.