Health & Sanitation
A total of 1,741 low cost sanitary units have been
constructed so far, with one-third of the costs being met by the beneficiaries. More than
34,000 women-at-risk and children under 5 were covered under the mother & child health
(M&CH) programme during the year.
Primary Education
674 Supplementary Learning Centres provided regular coaching
to nearly 37,000 children during 2005-06. The programme has so far covered over 47,000
primary school-goers. In addition, more than 100 government primary schools
were
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 provided infrastructure
support consisting of benches/chairs (2,108), compound walls/gates/roof (51), additional
classrooms (11), teaching aids and sports kits (499). Two new initiatives were launched
during the year: a rural library network that brings educational and recreational reading
material to interior villages and a roaming laptop project that introduces IT-based
learning in remote, rural schools. Depending on the success of the pilot project, these
initiatives will be scaled up in the coming years. |
