Mumbai: With a view to ensure quality
education to the children of city policemen, the Maharashtra
government will be building a six-storeyed English medium
school near Worli Traffic Police Headquarters in central
Mumbai.
The foundation stone for the school to be named as
'Mumbai Police School' was laid by state Home Minister Jayant
Patil today.
"Quality education has become a costly affair now.
Many police families avoid sending their children to
well-known schools as they have to incur heavy expenses,"
Patil said. "Hence we planned to start a school and now the
work has begun," he said.
50 per cent of the seats in the school, where Marathi
will be a compulsory subject, will be reserved for the
children of police families. It will have classes for
pre-primary students to junior college students.
To be built by Goenka Associates Education Trust
(GAET) under Build, Operate, Lease and Transfer scheme, the
school will be constructed within a year on a
4,032-square-meter plot reserved for police school and can
accomodate 6,400 students.
Patil also asked City Police Commissioner D Sivanandan,
who was present at the funtion, to examine if it is possible
to start classes up to graduation.
The school will have well-furnished class rooms and
modern amenities like science and geography labs, library and
computer class.
Bureau Report
First Published: Saturday, August 29, 2009, 18:55