West Bengal state-run schools to have English medium teaching from next academic year

West Bengal state-run schools to have English medium teaching from next academic year

“Now the state-run government schools will also offer English based education from the next academic year starting March/ April 2019,” West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee told indianexpress.com. Chatterjee said that the initiative was taken by the government two years ago to benefit the students from the lower income background. “The English medium education will start in fifty to sixty state-run schools initially in Kolkata and other districts of West Bengal. The government will introduce in other schools gradually,” Chatterjee said. An official from the West Bengal board of secondary education said that the government has already made the list of the schools where English medium will be introduced. “The list has been prepared on the basis of the Madhyamik (Class 10) and Uchha Madhyamik (Class 12) results of the previous years. The government has given preference to the best performing schools,” said the official. The names of the schools will be announced by the board in January. Some of the top state-run schools such as Ballygunge government school, Hare school, Hindu school in Kolkata, Barasat government school in North 24 Parganas, Raiganj Coronation High schools are expected to be on the list.

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