Odisha Government to upgrade 21 High Schools for SC & ST students

To provide science education to SC and ST students in the state, Odisha Government has decided to upgrade an additional 21 high schools to higher secondary schools.

Ramesh Chandra Majhi, Odisha’s Minister for ST & SC Development and Minorities & Backward Classes Welfare, said, "The new upgraded higher secondary schools will come up in Gajapati, Kandhamal, Sundergarh, Nabarangpur, Koraput, Rayagada, Malkangiri, Kalahandi, Mayurbhanj and Balangir districts."

The newly upgraded schools will majorly focus on the science stream.

"For the current academic session 2018-19, the government has decided to upgrade 21 more high schools to higher secondary schools," Majhi said.

The classes in these schools will commence from the current academic year. The government has already appointed 154 junior lecturers.

Earlier, the state government had upgraded 26 High Schools into higher secondary schools in the science stream till 2017-18.