With only four months left for the ongoing academic year of 2023-24 to end, nearly one lakh students studying in schools run by the Directorate of Minorities in the State are yet to get their uniform sets. Many of them haven’t got shoes and socks either this year. This has forced many children to come to school in ‘colour dress’.
The Directorate of Minorities runs 200 Maulana Azad Model Schools where over 60,000 students from the minority communities study, along with 29 A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Residential Schools, 80 Morarji Desai Residential Schools, 13 Morarji Desai Girls Residential Schools, and four government Muslim residential school. Put together, there are over one lakh students studying in these schools.
Since most of the students studying in these schools come from poor backgrounds, the Directorate of Minorities provides two sets of stitched uniforms, shoes, socks, textbooks, and stationery free every year.
