The State government in the recent budget announced that 500 government schools will be upgraded as Karnataka Public Schools. Of these 500, 137 government schools are in the seven districts of Kalyana Karnataka region and they too will be upgraded as Karnataka Public Schools, Minister for Primary and Secondary Education Madhu Bangarappa has said.
After releasing the Akshara Avishkara programme brochure, Mr. Bangarappa and KKRDB chairman Ajay Singh told a press conference that besides the existing 297 Karnataka Public Schools in the State, the government has planned to upgrade 500 schools as Karnataka Public Schools to carry out bilingual teaching from the primary level and to improve the learning ability of children in government-run schools.
Mr. Bangarappa revealed that the State government has planned to establish 3,000 Karnataka Public Schools (one school for every two gram panchayats) across Karnataka in the next three years.
