MCD intensifies efforts to increase voting percentage in LS polls
The civic body has roped in various commercial establishments, offering discounts to voters who cast their votes, said MCD in an official statement on Tuesday.
To provide high standards of teaching and infrastructure to the students in Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) schools, 25 such schools will be upgraded soon.
For this purpose, as a pilot, 25 schools have been identified and work will be started in them at the earliest.
Lt. Governor V.K. Saxena on Saturday visited the Nagar Nigam Pratibha Vidyalaya in H-Block, Ashok Vihar along with top officials of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) where he announced the same.
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Addressing the teachers and staff present on the occasion, Saxena promised to make schools run by the MCD to the highest standards by providing the best teaching, technological and physical infrastructure to them.
“The same would gradually be undertaken in all other remaining schools run by MCD,” he informed.
The LG ensured the teachers that he will do everything possible to provide them with an enabling work atmosphere and exhorted them to put in their best by remaining consistently updated and proactive so that their students are shaped mentally as well as academically at par with the best amongst their peers.
Saxena who took a round of the premises, while appreciating the general upkeep and maintenance, instructed that cleanliness be ensured on a daily basis, broken classroom furniture be replaced and the library be updated with the latest relevant resources.
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