KOLKATA: State Education Minister Bratya Basu said in the Assembly on Tuesday that the West Bengal administration will assess the state-run institutions that have shut down and come up with a plan to reopen them. In response to a query from BJP MLA Biswanath Karak, the minister stated that specific rules will be formulated depending on the teacher-student ratio of such schools prior to their closure and the population density of the areas where they are located.
The school education department will ask the authorities in every district to count the number of schools that have halted operation due to a shortage of students, Mr. Basu said later, speaking to reporters in his chamber at the assembly building.
After receiving the total, he said, “we will inform Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the government will decide how to restore these institutes.”
According to him, parents have a tendency to enrol their kids in the English-medium schools that have exploded throughout many regions. Bengali medium schools will have a difficult battle for survival until we alter this mentality, according to Mr. Basu.
