STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: All Residential Special Training Centres (RSTCs) in the State, which were being run under the Samagra Siksha Abhiyan (SSA), Assam, were closed down with effect from June this year.
There were 92 RSTCs in the State when six were closed in April this year - two each in Dhemaji and Biswanath and one each in Kamrup (M) and Sonitpur.
According to a notice issued by the SSA, the remaining 86 RSTCs were closed because the Project Approval Board of the Central Government did not approve the SSA's proposal for continuation of the RSTCs during 2022-2023 academic year.
The RSTC intervention was for 'out-of-school' children in the age group of 11-14 years. The RSTCs were run on a residential mode. The prime objective of this intervention was to bring the 'out-of-school' children, including the child labourers, and get them enrolled in his/her age-appropriate class in a formal school. After that, they were provided special training support so that they could be mainstreamed in due course. The special training was provided for a maximum of two years. The Mission Director of SSA, Assam had earlier stated that all learners of RSTCs enrolled in the year 2019-20 were to be mainstreamed by March, 2022. The remaining 86 RSTCs had been directed to mainstream their learners soon and then all the RSTCs would be closed down from June 30.
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