Night school to start at Yerawada

PUNE: Needy working professionals and youngsters from financially weaker section living along the Ahmednagar road will get an opportunity to study as the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will start a night school at Nanasaheb Parulekar High School in Yerawada.
The all party committee of PMC on Monday approved a proposal to start this school. “Men and women with poor financial background find it difficult to study because they have take up jobs to support families and give up education.Not only adults, but many young boys and girls from the lower strata of society opt for joba rather than education, due to monetary issues. The number of such people is high in areas like Yerawada. The night school aims at imparting education to them,” city mayor Prashant Jagtap said, while speaking to reporters after the meeting.
He said that the process to get permission from state education department to run this school has been completed. The school education board will start this new educational facility from the current academic year. The administration is reaching out to the citizens of Ahmednagar road areas to create awareness about night school. Classes will be conducted in existing school building and will use the infrastructure of the PMC’s school. Other facilities such as teachers and non-teaching staff will be made available soon.
The PMC school board runs 310 schools. These schools impart education in mediums including Marathi, English, Urdu and Kannada. Around one lakh students are getting education from these schools. Most of them represent poor social and financial backgrounds.