Kathmandu. 87 community schools within the Kathmandu Metropolitan City have the capacity to educate about 47 thousand 694 students from early childhood development to class 10. The number of community schools is 89. As 2 out of 89 schools are under reconstruction, admission can be taken in 87 schools. 3 of these are inside the prison. There are 4 special schools. There is a night school and a Sanskrit school. Admission to night and Sanskrit schools only from class 6 onwards. About 39 thousand 952 students studied in the last academic session 2080.
This year, 5 thousand 514 students can be enrolled in early child development classes, 12 thousand 80 more students from class 1 to class 9, 6 thousand 566 students. Engineer Shailendra Jha, a member of the Urban Planning Commission, said that this capacity was determined based on the information requested from the schools based on the indicators such as the physical structure, educational materials, and the number of teachers available in the school.
4 thousand 925 students studied in the pre-primary child development class in the academic session of 2080. This class has the capacity to admit 5 thousand 514 students. Last year, 794 less students were enrolled to reach the capacity. Efforts will be made to complete these capacities this year. Last year, 2,653 students studied in class 1 out of the capacity of 3,429 students to study. For the full capacity of this hall, 776 more students should be enrolled in the current academic session. Last year 2 thousand 578 students studied class 2, the capacity is 3 thousand 327 students. 749 more students should be enrolled in this class in academic session 2081.
2 thousand 643 people studied in class 3 last year. The capacity of this class is 3 thousand 359 people. In order to utilize the full capacity of the class, 716 more students should be enrolled in the current academic session. 2 thousand 961 students studied in class 4 last year. The capacity of this class is 3,600. 639 more students should be enrolled in this class. The capacity of class 5 is 3 thousand 800. Last year, 3 thousand 144 students studied in this class. 656 more students can be admitted in this class.
Last year 3 thousand 542 students studied in class 6, the capacity is 4 thousand 405 students. 863 more students can be admitted in this class. The capacity of class 7 is 4 thousand 538 people. 3 thousand 944 students studied in this class in the academic session. This year, when 594 more students are enrolled, the class is at full capacity.
The capacity of Class 8 is 5,210 students. 4 thousand 651 students studied in this class last year. 559 more students can be enrolled in this class. 4 thousand 958 students studied in class 9 last year. The capacity of this class is 5 thousand 256 people. If 298 more students are admitted this year, the class will be used to its full capacity. 3 thousand 953 students studied in class 10 last year.
Academic Session 2081 Admission Campaign
For the academic session 2081, the Metropolitan Municipality is going to conduct an admission campaign with the slogans of ‘Karle Hoin Rahara – Our Children in Community Schools’ and ‘Creative Learning in Educational Transformation Campaign, Community School Parents’ First Choice’ from 2nd to 7th of Baisakh. Classes will be held from Baisakh 9th. According to Saraswati Pokharel, the Acting Head of the Education Department, before the admission, books, school buildings and classrooms are being repaired, laboratories are being managed.
In order to improve the educational quality, the Metropolitan Municipality has made arrangements for the improvement of physical structure, availability of laboratories, and mid-day meals for the students to prepare and engage in spontaneous learning activities. Through the school nurse program, health behavior improvement and basic health services have been provided in schools.
There will be integrated learning from early childhood development class to class 3. Every Friday there will be creative learning activities for classes 4 to 8 under the ‘Bookless’ programme. In class 9th and 10th, the SIP program in education will be regular. The activities of the school will be monitored by CCTV cameras. Teaching activities based on information technology will be done through smart boards in the classrooms.
Teacher training has been conducted to increase the capacity of teachers. According to Jha of the Urban Planning Commission, investment has been increased for educational reforms. About 2 billion 75 crore rupees have been allocated for this year. In this, regular Rs 92 crore 29 lakh, Rs 50 crore for Mahanagara Gaurav Yojana for education, Rs 5 crore for golden scheme, Rs 1 billion 47 crore for internal and Rs 1 billion 27 crore received from the union.
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