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RANCHI: The Jharkhand government on Wednesday signed three memorandum of understandings (MoUs) with NGOs working in the school education sector on a zero investment innovation model. “The initial target for 260 schools will be expanded to all 6,000 schools with secondary section in the state in the coming years. We have identified another 7,000 schools in the state with enrolment of less than 30 students which will be merged in the second phase of school mergers.” The NGOs will work in different avenues of school education that need improvement with only administrative support from the government and no financial investment Chief minister Raghubar Das , who was present during the signing of MoUs, said: “These NGOs have come forward with innovative ideas that could transform the face of education in the state. We are now targeting to open a senior secondary school with adequate number of subject teachers in each panchayat in the state by 2022.”A P Singh, secretary (school education and literacy), said: “The state’s school education set-up is undergoing a revamp with the department consolidating and merging schools with fewer children into larger schools to make the best use of available resources..