The 177 Model Schools, constituting of around 90,000 students in rural areas of the state, are fighting a battle for the survival.
After the Centre had made it clear that it would not extend any helping hand, and decided to cut off its financial support to the model schools, has suggested to the state governments to fend for themselves.
Shockingly, the state govt had allocated a scanty Rs 75 lakh for the schools for the financial year 2015-16. The state government’s reluctance to shoulder the responsibility has left over 3,000 staffs,and future of 90,000 students in lurch.
Resulted in guessing whether the Model School system would last any longer as the poor sum earmarked for the purpose would hardly sufficient to pay the salaries to the staff.
This apart, the situation of 125 new sanctioned schools, under the programme, is still far to become a reality.
It may be recalled that the Union government has, in its recent budget, decided to delink the support to the Model Schools.
With no support from both central and state governments, contract teachers working in these schools are a worried lot and complain that they have not received salaries for the last two to four months.