Ensure no child is deprived of education, Kalaburagi Deputy Commissioner tells officials
Kalaburagi Deputy Commissioner Ikram Shariff has directed officials to prioritize educational access and infrastructure for minority communities. The directive includes monitoring school performance, improving language teaching, and ensuring private schools do not exploit parents.
Why it matters
Local administrative oversight is essential for ensuring the effective implementation of welfare schemes and maintaining educational standards in underserved districts.
Deputy Commissioner Ikram Shariff on Friday directed officials to ensure that no child is deprived of education and called for the effective implementation of schemes aimed at improving educational opportunities, infrastructure and welfare of minority communities in the district.
Chairing the district-level review meeting of the Prime Minister’s New 15-Point Programme at his office, Mr. Shariff asked officials to go beyond presenting physical progress reports and instead focus on the effective utilisation of budgetary allocations and measurable improvements in the quality of education.
He instructed officials to conduct field visits to minority educational institutions to assess the challenges they face and devise suitable solutions. To reduce learning gaps and prevent dropouts among Urdu-medium students, he stressed the need to strengthen Kannada and English language teaching from the primary level.
He said steps were being taken, in collaboration with the Azim Premji Foundation, to provide teachers for mathematics, science, and languages.
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