Gujarat’s first English medium school run by civic authority opens in Amdavad

Ahmedabad, 13 May 2013

The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) today opened its first English mediam municipal school ‘Ahmedabad Public School(APS)’ in wall city area of Shahpur.

Ahmedabad Public School (APS), the first public school in Gujarat by a municipal corporation will provides English-medium primary education for just Rs 11, which is the one-time registration charge(and there is no tuition or admission fee.)

The school was announced recently by the Municipal Corporation which had allocated Rs 50 lakh for it in its school board, mainly to contain the drop-out rate and provide quality education to the underprivileged..

The school was inaugurated today on the occasion of Akshay tritya, however the formal academic session will begin from June. To begin with, APS will have classes from junior KG to class II and add a class each year. The number of students has been limited to 35 in each class.

The school will run from a double-storeyed 30-room building constructed as a part of earthquake relief project by the Karnataka government in 2001.

At present, Shahpur municipal school number 5, a lower primary school with 700 students, is run in the building in the afternoon while Shahpur municipal school number 6, the upper primary school (Class VI-VIII) with nearly 200-250 students, runs in the morning.

The APS will run on a staggered schedule. The kindergarten will run from 8:30-11 am and Classes I and II from 7:30-11:30 am.