Principal Secretary, School Education, Praveen Prakash on Saturday said there was no question of any compromise on the quality of the material supplied in the school kit given to students under the Jagananna Vidya Kanuka scheme.
Mr. Praveen Prakash visited the manufacturing centres of the school bags and the warehouses of the company supplying footwear, in Delhi. After examining the cloth used to stitch the bags, he checked the zips and shoulder straps and verified if they could withstand a weight of 12 kg.
Later, at the shoe factory, he verified the quality and instructed the staff to strictly adhere to the quality norms. He said Jagananna Vidya Kanuka was an ambitious and prestigious scheme and any attempt to compromise on the quality of the items in the kits given to children would not be tolerated. He picked nine pairs of shoes and an equal number of bags and sent them for quality testing.
