IAS officers lead means, undertake authorities colleges in Odisha

Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: Odisha authorities’s ‘Mo School’ marketing campaign has obtained a bureaucratic booster dose with IAS officers coming ahead to undertake colleges for his or her holistic improvement this yr.

According to School and Mass Education division sources, over 30 officers together with 13 from the Chief Minister’s Office and 17 from totally different authorities departments and district administrations have led by instance and are available ahead to attach with the varsity adoption programme. 

Following Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s attraction to the alumni to take possession of their alma mater and assist improvement, senior officers of the State authorities evinced curiosity in adopting a number of colleges. The marketing campaign, a mission supervised by 5T Initiatives Secretary VK Pandian, promotes general improvement of faculties by way of participation of the alumni. 

Chief Secretary Suresh Chandra Mohapatra tops the listing of adopting officers. Mohapatra is about to undertake DN High School in Keonjhar, sources mentioned. Similarly Chief Advisor to the CM R Balakrishnan and Principal Advisor to CM Asit Tripathy, additionally Western Odisha Development Council chief, will undertake Jajpur Government High School and Titlagarh High Schools respectively. 

Works Secretary Krishan Kumar and extra secretary to the Chief Minister Roopa Roshan Sahoo have dedicated to undertake three colleges below this initiative. Kumar, actually, has adopted two colleges – MR Boys High School and MR Girls High School – in Gajapati, whereas Sahoo has adopted BB High School in Dhenkanal. School and Mass Education Secretary Satyabrata Sahu, who had lent his voice for the ‘Mo School’ anthem final yr, will undertake Manikeswari High School in Bhawanipatna. 

This aside, IT Secretary Manoj Mishra will undertake the Unit I Boys High School within the Capital metropolis and Energy Secretary Nikunja Bihari Dhal will undertake BS High School at Sayedpur in Jajpur and work for his or her improvement. Transport secretary Madhusudan Padhi will take up Brahmapur High School in Bhadrak. 

The listing additionally contains Special Secretary at CMO Vineel Krishna, RDC Central Division Anil Kumar Samal, Odisha Mining Corporation MD Balwant Singh, OSEPA State Project Director Bhupendra Singh Poonia and district collectors of Bhadrak, Gajapati and Kendrapara. 

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had launched the ‘Mo School Abhiyan’ on Children’s Day in 2017 to convey alumni, their alma mater and the neighborhood round authorities or authorities aided colleges collectively for his or her transformation.  The funds for implementation of Mo School programmes comes from two sources – contribution from donors whereas twice the quantity of the contribution is drawn from a devoted preliminary corpus of Rs  100 crore created by the State Government.

More than 25,000 colleges within the State have been linked below this platform for his or her improvement up to now. The authorities has authorised initiatives price Rs  57.49 crore for 8,877 colleges for 2020-21. Of this Rs  19.16 crore was contribution made by alumni of various colleges, whereas Rs  38.32 crore was supplied by the federal government from the corpus.

Schools for future

Chief Secretary Suresh Chandra Mohapatra 

DN High School, Keonjhar

Chief Advisor to CM 

R Balakrishnan 

Jajpur Govt High School

WODC Chairman Asit Tripathy 

Titlagarh High School

Works Secretary Dr Krishan Kumar 

MR Boys High School, MR Girls High School, Gajapati

Additional Secy to CM Roopa Roshan Sahoo

BB High School, Dhenkanal

Special Secretary at CMO Vineel Krishna

Badapada Ashram School, Malkangiri