Question : SCHOOLS RUN BY RAILWAYS



(a) whether the Railways has decided to gradually close down the schools managed by Railways;

(b) if so, the reasons therefor; and

(c) the list of such schools managed by the Railways in North Frontier Railway and present status of each school?

Answer given by the minister


MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS( SHRI R.VELU )

(a)&(b): Ministry of Railways has provided educational facilities to a limited extent within the constraints of available resources, purely as a measure of staff welfare at such places where educational facilities provided at by other agencies, both Government (Central/ State) and private, are either non-existent or inadequate resulting in hardship to the employees. With the passage of time there has been extensive development and expansion of educational facilities by Ministry of Human Resource Development, State Governments and private agencies and accordingly continuance of railway schools at various locations is being reviewed as a continuous process.

(c): List of Railway schools being run on Northeast Frontier Railway is attached as Appendix.There is at present no proposal to close any Railway School on Northeast Frontier Railway.

APPENDIX REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (c) OF THE UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.2067 BY DR. ARUN KUMAR SARMA TO BE ANSWERED IN THE LOK SABHA ON 13.03.2008 REGARDING SCHOOLS RUN BY RAILWAYS.

Higher Secondary/High Schools

1. NVP Railway Higher Secondary School, Maligaon, Assam

2. Railway Higher Secondary School, Maligaon, Assam

3. Railway Higher Secondary School, Lumding, Assam

4. Railway Higher Secondary School, Badarpur, Assam

5. Railway Higher Secondary School, Alipurduar, West Bengal

6. Railway Higher Secondary School, Siliguri, West Bengal

7. Railway Girls High School, New Jalpaiguri, West Bengal

8. Railway High School, Dimapur, Nagaland

Primary Schools

1. Railway Primary School, Rest Camp, Pandu, Assam

2. Railway Primary School, Dharamnagar, Tripura

3. Railway Primary School, Domohani, West Bengal

4. Railway Primary School, Tinsukia, Assam

Austerity Type Primary Schools

1. Railway Double Teacher Primary School, Barsoighat, Bihar

2. Railway Double Teacher Primary School, Amingaon, Assam

3. Railway Double Teacher Primary School (Central Gotanagar),Maligaon, Assam

4. Railway Double Teacher Primary School, Adabari, Maligaon,Assam

5. Railway Double Teacher Primary School, Gosala, Maligaon,Assam

6. Railway Double Teacher Primary School (Assamese Med.),Mariani,Assam

7. Railway Double Teacher Primary School (Bangla Med.),Mariani, Assam

8. Railway Double Teacher Primary School, Tinsukia, Assam

9. Railway Double Teacher Primary School (Assamese Med.),Dibrugarh, Assam

10. Railway Double Teacher Primary School (Hindi Med.),Dibrugarh, Assam

11. Railway Single Teacher Primary School, Malbazar, Alipurduar, West Bengal

12. Railway Single Teacher Primary School (Hindi Med.),Bongaigaon, Assam

13. Railway Single Teacher Primary School (Assamese Med.),Bongaigaon, Assam

14. Railway Single Teacher Primary School, Nambari, Maligaon,Assam