Gandhinagar: More than 5.72 lakh children get admission in Class 1 during the three-day-long Shala Praveshotsav, an annual drive to enrol students in government-run schools in Gujarat, State Education minister Jitu Vaghani Informed on Tuesday.

Bhupendra Patel, CM of the state of Gujarat, launched the 17th edition of Shala Praveshotsav at a primary school in Vadgam of the Banaskantha district on June 23.

“Over 5.72 lakh children have been enrolled in Class 1 across the state, including 2.80 lakh girls and 2.91 lakh boys.” Jitu Vaghani told the reporters.

He added, “The enrolment drive covered 30,880 government-run primary schools in the state. During the drive, 2.30 lakh children, including 1.12 lakh girls, were also admitted in anganwadis and kindergartens across the state,” Mr Vaghani told reporters in Gandhinagar.”

Prominent citizens and donors had donated cash and articles worth Rs 28.53 crore for the drive. In Kashipura village of Banaskantha district, a local resident gifted a piece of land worth Rs 10 lakh for education purposes, the minister said.

Thanks to this drive, started by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2003 when he was the state’s CM, Gujarat’s gross enrolment ratio has gone up to nearly 100 per cent, the minister claimed. DeshGujarat

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