The Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP) Government is all set to launch the Jagananna Vidya Kanuka Scheme, on the 8th of October.
Under the Jagananna Vidya Kanuka Scheme students of government schools would get
text books, school uniforms and other essentials free of cost.
Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh would launch the scheme and would provide kits to students.
Approximately 42,34,322 lakh students would be benefited from the scheme. For the distribution of the kits, the State Government released an amount of Rs. 650 crores.
Students from classes 1 to 10 in government schools would get the kits.
Things provided in the kit:
Three pairs of uniforms
One pair of shoes
Two pairs of socks
Textbooks, notebooks, belt, School bag.
Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy would launch the scheme at Punapadu Government School in Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh.
The YSRCP officials said full transparency was maintained in the purchase of material through reverse tendering and e procurement. Apart from distributing the kits, the Government has also embarked on the Nadu Nedu initiative to provide 10 basic facilities in all the schools.
The facilities include construction of compound walls, black boards, fans and other furniture to give a new look to the government schools
The distribution would be done before the beginning of 2020-2021 academic year.
The Andhra Pradesh Government is likely to reopen schools from the first week of November.
Initially, the schools were scheduled to open in October, but due to the outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus or COVID-19 they delayed the reopening.
Andhra Pradesh has a total of 7,34,427 positive cases of COVID-19, of the total 49,513 are active cases, 6,78,828 recovered/discharged cases and 6,096 are decreased cases.
Stay tuned for further updates.
