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At least 341 government-run primary schools in Gujarat were operating with a single classroom each as of December 2023, according to Education Minister Kuber Dindor. The state minister also stated that more than 1,400 posts of administrative officers and 1,459 posts of class-1 and class-2 officers in the state Education Department were lying vacant.

Gujarat Education Minister Kuber Dindor was responding to queries raised by Congress MLA Kirti Patel during the Question Hour of the ongoing Budget session in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly on Tuesday. 

Congress lawmaker Kirti Patel accused the ruling BJP of neglecting the quality of education in the state while citing a report that showed poor performance of Gujarat’s primary school students in reading and writing skills. 

"The BJP government is good at only doing publicity and projecting Gujarat as a model state while the reality is different. As per the Performance Grading Index Report of 2023, nearly 25 per cent of children studying in primary schools in Gujarat can't even read Gujarati while 47.20 per cent can't read English. Gujarat was not in the top five states which performed well in terms of education," said Kirti Patel.

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Education Minister Kuber Dindor defended the government’s efforts and claimed that more than 65,000 smart classrooms and 5,000 computer labs have been built so far and another 43,000 classrooms and 15,000 labs are under construction in state-run schools across Gujarat.\

"Under the Mission Schools of Excellence project, we have constructed 15,000 classrooms in 2023-24 while construction for another 15,000 classrooms is under progress. More than 5,000 computer labs have been constructed and work is on for creating 15,000 more such labs in schools," he said.

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He also said that the dropout ratio in primary schools has fallen drastically and more than 22,000 contractual teachers have been appointed in the year 2023-24. He added that the government has allocated more than Rs 2,785 crore for the upgradation of primary schools under the Mission Schools of Excellence project for the year 2024-25.

(With PTI Inputs)