{"id":90034,"date":"2020-01-10T01:09:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T19:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=90034"},"modified":"2020-01-10T01:09:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T19:39:05","slug":"311-schools-in-state-lying-defunct-min","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/01\/10\/311-schools-in-state-lying-defunct-min\/","title":{"rendered":"311 schools in state lying defunct: Min"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Jan 9:<\/strong> As many as 311 schools in Arunachal are lying defunct as per the Unified District Information System for Education Plus (U-DISE+) data of 2018-19, Education Minister Taba Tedir informed the assembly on Thursday.<br \/>\nIn a written response to former chief minister Nabam Tuki, Tedir said this was due to &#8220;lack of infrastructure facilities in the remote areas&#8221; and &#8220;lack of students due to migration of parents towards the headquarters.&#8221;<br \/>\nThere are 1300 primary schools, over 300 middle-level schools, 68 higher secondary schools, and 103 high schools in Arunachal, he said, referring to a report of the U-DISE.<br \/>\nThe minister also stated that the state government has been providing stipends to the students of primary and upper primary schools &#8220;as per its policy.&#8221;<br \/>\nLast year, Tedir had said that his department would shut down the defunct schools and focus on strengthening the facilities in the ones that are currently running smoothly.<br \/>\nHe had also said that the assets from these non-functional schools would be utilized for other purposes. (With PTI inputs)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Jan 9: As many as 311 schools in Arunachal are lying defunct as per the Unified District Information System for Education Plus (U-DISE+) data of 2018-19, Education Minister Taba Tedir informed the assembly on Thursday. In a written response to former chief minister Nabam Tuki, Tedir said this was due to &#8220;lack [&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-90034","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\/90034","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=90034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}