UP schoolkids unlikely to get sweaters by Oct 31 deadline

  • | Sunday | 28th October, 2018

Government had set October 31 as the deadline for completing distribution of sweaters in all schools. Instructions were also given to provide the details of sweater distribution to the state authorities on a daily basis. to the basic shiksha adhikaris of 41 districts. Meerut: Terming the statewide report on distribution of sweaters among government school students in UP as “highly unsatisfactory”, state government authorities have pulled up 41 districts for “slow progress”. However, a fresh statewide report is not available.Despite giving instructions to complete the sweater distribution by October 31, as many as 41 districts have showed extremely slow progress in the work.

Meerut: Terming the statewide report on distribution of sweaters among government school students in UP as “highly unsatisfactory”, state government authorities have pulled up 41 districts for “slow progress”. Government had set October 31 as the deadline for completing distribution of sweaters in all schools. However, in some districts, the sweater distribution has not even started and in others, hardly 1% of the total target has been achieved.TOI had reported four days ago that out of the 1.57 crore students in UP government schools, only 11,167 students had received sweaters then. However, a fresh statewide report is not available.Despite giving instructions to complete the sweater distribution by October 31, as many as 41 districts have showed extremely slow progress in the work. This shows the negligent attitude of the officials concerned towards the task. This performance will be calculated in their annual assessment, said Sarvendra Vikram Bahadur Singh, UP education director (basic) in his order to basic shiksha adhikaris of 41 districts.It should be noted that the sweaters were distributed in January this year for the last winter season. The task was completed by February-end, by which time temperatures had already started rising.To ensure that distribution is done on time this winter, state government had issued an order in mid-September to distribute sweaters among the students by October 31. Instructions were also given to provide the details of sweater distribution to the state authorities on a daily basis. However, the statewide report compiled in the matter four days ago showed that distribution work had barely started.Of the 41 districts where more than 600 sweaters were distributed, Meerut accounted for 948 sweaters , Amethi 790 and Kanpur Nagar 615.“All the district basic shiksha adhikaris have been asked to maintain a daily record of sweater distribution and ensure that the distribution is completed by October 31 by all means,” read Singh’s letter. to the basic shiksha adhikaris of 41 districts.

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