Gujarat govt invites EoI for residential schools of excellence on PPP mode

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Education Department has invited Expression of Interest (Eoi) from interested private players to set up and run Residential School of Excellence (RSE) on Public Private Partnership (PPP) basis.

The project partners will bear all capital investment for setting up the schools. It is proposed that the education department of the state will pay a lump-sum amount of Rs 60,000 per student per annum for 2021-22 with an annual increase of 7 % every year.

The RSE aims to provide the best quality education with residence to the meritorious students of Government schools in the state at free-cost for standard 6th to 12th. The project will cater to a total 100,000 students in the state and each campus of the schools under this scheme will cater to 2000 to 10,000 students. The students will be selected through a state-level common entrance test at the end of standard 5th for government and grant-in aid schools. DeshGujarat