PRIMERA DELIMITACIÓ DE L'OBJECTE D'INVESTIGACIÓ

a) Access

i) A Primary School should be provided within the habitation or up to 1 kilometre of every habitation.

ii) There should be 1 Middle School for every 2 primary schools. However, additional Middle School may have to be established to ensure the existence of a Middle School within the habitation or up to 3 kilometres of every habitation. iii) For the elementary education, there will be two types of schools: Primary Schools

having Classes I-V and Middle Schools having Classes I-VIII. The latter would have two sections in each Class. Each Class or Section will have 40 students, resulting in a total capacity of 210 students for Primary Schools and 440 students for Middle Schools.

iv) Both the Primary and Middle Schools would have two sections of pre-elementary education of a duration of one year, each section accommodating 20 children. v) The concerned government department should ensure that all the schools are

accessible by all weather roads.

b) School Land

i) A Primary School should have a minimum of 500 sq. meters of land (0.12 acre)

ii) A Middle School should have a minimum of 800 sq. mtrs. of land (0.20 acres) for its building. In addition, it should have 1.00 acre of land as playfield.

c) Physical Infrastructure

i) The total floor area of a Primary School should be 415 sq. meters, broadly

distributed as follows :

Class room (5 nos., each of 40 sq. mtrs.) - 200 sq. mtrs.

Staff room (1no.) - 50 sq. mtrs.

Resource room (1 no.) - 10 sq. mtrs.

Hall for pre-elementary children (1 no.) - 50 sq. mtrs.

Kitchen and dining hall (1 no.) - 50 sq. mtrs.

Veranda - 50 sq mtrs.

Toilets (2 nos., each of 2.5 sq. mtrs.) - 5 sq.mtrs.

ii) The total floor area of a Middle School should be 790 sq. meters., broadly distributed as follows :

Class room (11 nos., each of 40 sq. mtrs.) - 440 sq. mtrs.

Headmaster's room (1 no.) - 30 sq. mtrs.

Staff room (1 no.) - 50 sq. mtrs.

Hall for pre-elementary children (1 no.) - 50 sq. mtrs.

Kitchen and dining hall (1 no.) - 50 sq. mtrs.

Office room (1 no.) - 15 sq. mtrs.

Library (1 no.) - 20 sq. mtrs.

Varanda - 130 sq mtrs.

Toilets (2 nos., each of 2.5 sq. mtrs.) - 5 sq.mtrs.

Total - 790 sq. mtrs.

iii) All Middle School buildings should be double – storeyed to save space.

iv) Apart from the buildings, the specifications of which have been mentioned above, all schools should have - Boundary walls (pucca), Ramps to provide access to disabled children, Tubewells with an overhead tank (2 nos.), Sewerage and Sanitation Facilities, Electrification, and Fire Safety Measures.

d) School Furniture and Equipment

Each Primary and Middle School should have the following furniture/ equipment:

i) Furniture

For Primary Schools, furniture should be adequate for 240 students, 8 teachers, administrative work and office equipments. For Middle Schools, furniture should be adequate for 480 students, 17 teachers, administrative work, library, computer room and office equipments. In both types of schools, children in pre-elementary section may sit on the floor, but they have to be provided with desks. Children's furniture should not be either fixed or heavy. It should be light, movable and individualistic, leaving scope for rearrangement of sitting arrangements, whenever necessary.

ii) Computers

For Primary Schools, there should be 1 computer with printer, for Middle Schools, there should be 3 computers.

iii) Games and Sports

iv) Telephone

Each school should be provided with a telephone connection.

v) Office Equipments

Each school should be provided with a duplicating machine and two typing machines (one each for Hindi and English).

vi) Teaching-Learning Equipments

Each school should have the necessary teaching-learning equipments, a list of which will be prepared by the SCERT. Cost of such equipments for Middle Schools will be higher than for Primary Schools.

vi) Library books

Middle Schools should be provided with resources for buying books for their libraries.

vii) Utensils for Mid-Day Meal Scheme (MDMS)

Each school should be provided with adequate utensils for organising the MDMS.

e) Teacher Requirements

i) For Primary Schools, there will be 8 teachers — 1 headmaster, 5 teachers for primary classes and 2 teachers for pre-elementary section. Provision should also be made for an Urdu/Bengali/other language teacher, if a minimum of 10 students wish to learn any of these languages.

ii) For Middle Schools, there should be 17 teachers in each school — 1 headmaster, 2 teacher for pre-elementary section, 5 for the primary classes, 7 for the upper primary classes, and 1 teacher each for games and arts. Provision should also be made for an Urdu/Bengali/other language teacher, if a minimum of 10 students wish to learn any of these languages.

iii) A music teacher should be appointed for a group of 3 Middle Schools, all sharing her services.

iv) For Primary Schools, there should be a non-teaching staff member to work as Helper for the pre – elementary section.

v) For Middle School, there should be 3 persons as non – teaching staff members — 1 Helper for pre – elementary, 1 Office Assistant and 1 Attendant.

f) Fees / Textbooks / Uniform / Mid-MayMeal / Health check-ups and Scholarships

i) No fees will be charged from the students.

iii) Two sets of uniform will be provided per annum to all students free of cost. Alternatively, the parents of all students will be provided with a reasonable sum to cover the cost of uniform

iv) Students in both Primary and Middle Schools will be provided with free mid-day

meals.

v) As fees will not be charged from the students and textbooks/stationeries/uniform

will also be provided free of cost, there is no necessity of having any scheme of scholarship. However, existing scholarship schemes may continue.