Rs 3 cr SIETA in Dharwad soon: Horatti

Rs 3 cr SIETA in Dharwad soon: Horatti
The Newindpress.com

Tuesday April 25 2006 12:22 IST

DHARWAD: The State Institute of Educational Management and Administration Training (SIETA) will be set up in Dharwad on the lines of Delhi-based NIEPA at a cost of Rs 3 crore, said Basavaraj Horatti, Minister for Primary and Secondary Education, Law and Parliamentary Affairs.

Participating at a press meet organised by the Media club, Dharwad, here on Monday, Horatti said the SIETA aimed at imparting educational management and administration training properly to the staff and officers of the education department.

He said it would be set up with Central financial aid of Rs 3 crore of which Rs 2 crore would be spent for basic infrastructure, Rs 30 lakh for other equipment, Rs 20 lakh for computer installation.

Financial aid of Rs 50 lakh would be provided by the state government annually to this institute.

He disclosed that the state government had given its nod to appoint about 215 judges in the current year. Appointments would begin as soon as they received the Chief Justice’s approval for it.

He said Rs 60.69 crore was being spent for the supply of uniforms and textbooks to the schoolchildren this academic year, which would help the government to provide education facilities to 64.86 lakh children across the state.

He said about 2.35 crore textbooks would be provided to the children studying in private aided primary and secondary schools in the state through tenders.

All these books would be available in all bookstalls from June 1 and all government schools would be supplied textbooks by June 15, he added.