PM GatiShakti to speed up PM SHRI Schools infrastructure augmentation

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₹27,360 crore spread over a period of 5 years which includes central share of ₹18,128 crore. The national master plan is a core planning body under PM GatiShakti and it helps in creating data layers for the different ministries such as education, water resources, drinking water and sanitation, railways, etc.

The ministries utilize the data layer available at the NMP portal for planning and execution of projects of national importance. Appreciating the notion of PM SHRI school scheme, noted educationalist J.S.

Rajput suggested that the government must stop the system of hiring teachers on contracts within in a year if they want to improve primary education. The government must ensure availability of trained teachers apart from the infrastructure augmentation so that students in remote areas get better education facilities, said Rajput, who is a former director of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).

“The NMP has mapped each and every detail required for planning infrastructure augmentation such as availability of drinking water in schools, electricity, number of teachers available against the total strength, number of toilets for girls and boys, internet, school building condition, road connectivity, existence of boundary wall, etc., in schools," the first official said. Besides the school education department, the ministries with the mandate to construct roads, provide water, establish sanitation facilities will be able to use the data and plan their projects in accordance with the deficiencies of services in every school without making any physical survey, that involves time and cost, the first official added.