KOZHIKODE: Education minister C. Raveendranath on Monday lamented the government’s helplessness to take up new projects due to lack of funds. “But our mission is to fight the odds and bring the best in the educational sector in the next five years,” he said inaugurating a multipurpose building at Karaparamba Government Higher Secondary School under PRISM ‘Promoting Regional Schools to International Stan-dard through Multiple Intervention) project.
“More facilities, more infrastructural development and attracting students to government schools will be our mission.” He said Rs 2,000 crore had been assured for the sector, and 1,000 state schools would be raised to international standards. Karaparamba is the third school after Nadakkavu GGHSS and Medical College Campus HSS in the constituency of A. Pradeep Kumar MLA here to be elevated to international standards.
Puthiyangadi Lower Primary School and NGO Quarters HS will soon join the league. Mr Kumar said Karaparamba would be on the list of top schools in the country within five years. Apart from two new blocks, it will have a basketball court with a gallery, separate toilets for girls and boys, indoor stadium, dining hall, kitchen, auditorium, compound wall, library and reading garden.
The construction has been made possible by using Rs 5 crore from the state government as part of the PRISM project and Rs 2 crore from LAC Asset Development Fund. The minister also visited students of Malaparamba AUP School, who were shifted to the Collectorate Engineer's Hall. He later inaugurated the new civil engineering block of Government engineering college, Westhill.
