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Ahmedabad government to start schools for class 9th to 10th
Ahmedabad 2025
From the next session, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation School Board will start secondary schools for class 9 and 10 in 7 municipal schools of all 7 zones of the city. Now, there will be one school in the zone in which instead of class 1 to 8, education up to class 10 will be provided without any fee.
Children are dropping out of school after class 8. Therefore, this decision has been taken from March 2025. The school board is planning to start seven schools for class 9 and 10.
The state school board has received preliminary approval for this.
The school board run by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has 400 schools from class 1 to 8. Now classes of class 9 and 10 will be started in these schools. Thus, education from nursery to class 10 will be provided free of cost.
1 lakh 70 thousand students study from class 1 to 8, while only 18 thousand children study in class 8. By the time they reach class 8, 8 percent of the children leave school.
He further informed that the school board is going to start secondary classes, so that students will not have to pay fees and facilities ranging from books to uniforms will be available free of cost.
The draft budget of the Municipal Corporation School Board for the year 2025-26 was Rs 1143 crore. For schools run by the Municipal Corporation School Board, the state government provides Rs 808 crore grantable expenditure and the Municipal Corporation Rs 131 crore. During this period, 129 municipal schools have been made smart schools.
Expensive fees
Citizens are unable to pay expensive fees, so in 10 years 55,605 students left private schools and enrolled in schools run by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation School Board.
Gujarat
The number of students dropping out of school from class 1 to 12 is increasing in Gujarat. In 2024, 1 lakh 50 thousand children in the state have left school. Children are forced to leave school due to the financial condition of the family. A statewide survey was to be conducted to find out such children. No one in Gujarat was able to complete education from class 1 to 12.
The government, in a circular, had ordered the principals of all primary and secondary schools in the state to survey the out-of-school children who could not complete education from class 1 to 12 and identify and enroll them and bring them back to school. In the survey, the entry of out-of-school children aged 6 to 19 years will be made online in the Child Tracking System.
In 2022, 11.3 lakh students in Gujarat left private schools and took admission in government schools in 4 years. 2.85 lakh in 2020-21, 3.49 lakh in 2021-22, 2.24 lakh students in 2022 left private schools and went to study in government schools. (Google translation from Gujarati from this website)
