Delhi to have 12 new schools, recruit 9,000 teachers

New Delhi: Delhi government on Friday informed that it will set up 12
new schools and recruit 9,000 teachers to enhance educational
facilities in the national capital for the effective implementation of
the Right to Education (RTE) Act.

"We have identified 10 sites for setting up new schools. We have also
decided to enhance the existing infrastructure in over 50 schools,"
Additional Education Director Sunita Shukla said on Friday.

Shukla added that the government has already upgraded the
infrastructure in 127 schools as part of a project called "Roopantar".

The government has constructed 529 new rooms in existing schools in
2010-11 for proper implementation of the RTE Act.

The law makes it mandatory for governments to provide free and
compulsory education to all children of the age of six to 14 years.
IANS