Gujarat cabinet decides to expand Rs. 5 per meal scheme, observe 10 bagless days in schools

Gandhinagar: The State cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel today took mainly two decisions.

As per one of the decisions taken, the Shramik Annapurna Yojana will be expanded with effect from 29th December to 28 more kadiya nakas in the State. With this, the yojana under which construction laborers and their family members get meals for Rs. 5 only, will be in implementation at 51 Kadiya Naka places in the State.

The State govt has also decided to implement 10-bagless days in classes 6 to 8 in the schools under the provision of the new education policy 2020. The students will be taken on visits to banks, industries, universities, ITIs etc during these ten bagless days. The schools will be allocated 10 days time or 60 hours for this – five days in the first half of the academic year and 5 days in the second half. Initially in January 2023’s first week, as an experiment, 491 schools will mark 10 bagless days while in the second phase, by the end of January 2023, as many as 1009 schools will see the implementation of ten bagless days for which per school Rs. 15,000 – or in-total Rs. 2 crore provision has been made.

These details were shared by the Spokesperson minister of the State government, Rushikeshbhai Patel. DeshGujarat