16 Residential Schools Planned for Girls

Chennai: Sixteen residential schools will be set up for out-of-school girl students in the age group 11-14 during the academic year beginning this June.

They will be established under the Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidhyalaya component of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, a senior official told The Hindu.

The center has sanctioned Rs.5.82 crore for the project, which is expected to take shape during 2007-08. Initial allocation of Rs.1.5 crore has been released.

At present, 37 such schools function in areas identified by the School Education Department as educationally backward blocks.

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