Surrender all school buildings awaiting execution: GoI to SED

Srinagar, Nov 9: The Government of India (GoI) has asked the Jammu and
Kashmir School Education Department to surrender all the school
buildings which await execution over the past many years. The
directions were passed by the Department of School Education and
Literacy (DSEL) for GoI in an annual meeting of Project Approval Board
(PAB) with the Ministry of Education (MoE). The official documents
read, “In the previous academic year, the JK government was asked to
take up pending civil works on priority. Further, it was advised to
surrender those infrastructure items approved earlier before 2015-16
which could not be completed. In a reply, the Jammu and Kashmir School
Education Department has informed, “The pending civil works have been
put to execution through the engineering divisions of the School
Education Department and most of the works have been either completed
during the current year or are at different stages of construction
which shall be completed by end of the current financial year.” “The
details of works approved under erstwhile Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan
(SSA) or Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) which could not be
taken up for execution till 2019-20 are being authenticated from the
field agencies,” JK government told GoI. The GoI was also informed
that “Once the updated information is received and compiled, the
proposal for surrendering of the civil works not taken up works shall
be submitted to Ministry of Education, GoI.”