rural education cell

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has decided to start a rural education cell to know the difficulties faced by the rural schools and to enhance the schools overall performance. NCERT has also decided to start a new reading cell which would be funded by Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan to give more attention on the reading skills and capabilities of students of classes I and II. Decision to this effect was finally approved by the committee chaired by the Union Human Resource Development Minister, Sri Arjun Singh.