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Designer uniforms for Govt. school children

NEW DELHI: Education Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely announced on Thursday that the Delhi Government has engaged the premier fashion technology institute NIFT at Hauz Khas here to design uniforms for all Government schools in the city. And to provide a level playing field to poor students, the Government would be distributing geometry boxes free to them from the next academic year.

The Minister said the Government was contemplating a revised dress code in Sarvodaya Schools and Sarvodaya Pratibha Schools. “Right now, every government school has a dress of its own, decided by the Principal of the school which in turn means that there are thousands of dresses within the government schools depriving them of a distinct identity at the State level. To provide a unique identity to these schools, NIFT will do the design work.”

To begin with, the Sarvodaya Pratibha Schools will get a new uniform that will come in a red hue. Thereafter all the government schools will get to wear similar uniforms that would provide a distinct appearance to all the students. “The Directorate of Education has a tradition of taking unique initiatives that have taken the Government schools ahead of public schools in Delhi. The new initiative of uniform dress code would also provide an opportunity to the government schools to move ahead,” he said.

As for the distribution of geometry boxes, he said the scheme would benefit about 2 lakh students studying in Classes IX to XII. On each geometry box the Government would be incurring an expenditure of Rs.40.

The Minister said while a scheme to provide various educational aids to the poor students was already in place, the geometry boxes would be provided to them to enable them to perform better in studies. ``The idea is that they should not lag behind,” he added.

Stating that the information technology sector was booming and there was an urgent need for well-educated people to take it to new heights, Mr. Singh said this humble step of the Delhi Government would not only help sharpen the young minds but also inculcate a scientific temperament in them.

``The Government wants the students to study without worrying about funds or money for their studies,” he said.

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