{"id":245066,"date":"2024-07-25T01:25:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T19:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=245066"},"modified":"2024-07-25T01:25:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T19:55:47","slug":"arunachal-shuts-600-schools-with-zero-low-enrolment-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/07\/25\/arunachal-shuts-600-schools-with-zero-low-enrolment-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Arunachal shuts 600 schools with zero, low enrolment: Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 24 Jul:<\/strong> Arunachal Pradesh education minister Pasang Dorjee Sona on Wednesday said the state government has shut around 600 schools, which were either non-functional or had zero enrolment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Replying to a question from lone Congress MLA Kumar Waii in the assembly, Sona said the government is planning to close more such schools with zero or low enrolment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nearly 600 such schools have already been shut or merged with other schools, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arunachal Pradesh has over 2,800 government-run lower primary, upper primary, secondary and higher secondary schools, with more than 7,600 regular teachers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sona also said shortage of teachers is being managed by appointing teachers on a stop-gap arrangement under the Mukhya Mantri Shiksha Kosh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government has placed a requisition with the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission for conducting recruitment exams for teachers, the minister said. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 24 Jul: Arunachal Pradesh education minister Pasang Dorjee Sona on Wednesday said the state government has shut around 600 schools, which were either non-functional or had zero enrolment. Replying to a question from lone Congress MLA Kumar Waii in the assembly, Sona said the government is planning to close more such schools with zero [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-245066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}