Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, January 13:
Along with ensuring job to one lakh population, the State Government is keeping the target of reducing the number of school drop-outs from 1,11,000 to 50,000 during the financial year 2008-09.These points would be highlighted at the time of finalising the State plan size for 2008-09 during the meeting scheduled to be held between Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh and Deputy Chairman of Union Planning Commission Dr Montek Singh Alluhwalia on January 21 .
Disclosing the ambitious plan for the cash strapped State to The Sangai Express, an official source said that among the important areas that would be given special focus by the Government during 2008-09 fiscal, the State Government would strive towards implementation of a scheme that would gaurantee providing jobs to one lakh people and reducing the rate of school drop-outs from the current rate of 28.54 percent to 23 percent by 2010-11 .
While informing that the total number of school drop-outs in the State today stand at 1,11,000, the source said that the State Government would be taking up special measures to ensure that the number of school drop-outs is significantly brought down to 50,000 during the course of the current financial year.
Special attention would also be given for imparting Science and Mathematics lessons at the schools with special emphasis on educational institutions in the hill districts, the source added.
Moreover, by 2010-11, the State Government is also keeping the target of maintaining the per capital income of the State from its present Rs 12,823 at par with the all India level along with reducing the shortage of food grains from the present 20 percent to 10 percent in the current financial year.
Along with keeping the target of completing all the projects and the schemes being taken up/implemented in the State, the State Government would also strive toward filing up the developmental gaps.
For the financial year 2008-09, the State Government has proposed a Plan size amount of Rs 1229.61 crores including Rs 800 crores as Special Plan Assistance fund.