Aurangabad: Maharashtra School Education Minister Rajendra Darda said that text-books worth Rs 250 crore are being distributed to 1.22 crore school students by the state government.
Students studying in class I to VIII are being given the textbooks, the minister added. He was speaking at a programme held at a primary school in Satara.
"Text-books and self-study books worth Rs 250 crore are being distributed to 1.22 crore school children in the state. The distribution has been taken up across the state simultaneously," Darda said.
According to Darda, Maharashtra government had signed an agreement with the British Council to implement 'English Language Initiative for Primary Schools' (ELIPS), which aims at enhancing the English teaching skills of teachers in government-run primary schools.
As per the agreement, the two-year programme will provide face-to-face training to 920 master trainers, who will impart the training to over 67,000 primary school teachers, a teacher per school, Darda said.
The objective is to improve the quality of English teaching in the lower primary classrooms.The agreement was signed last week by Rob Lynes, director (India), British Council, and Sanjay Deshmukh, state project director, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan.
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