Masindi builds 500 rooms to boost UPE
Sep 29, 2002
OVER 505 classrooms have been constructed in Masindi district to strengthen the Universal Primary Education Programme in the last four years, the LC5 vice- chairman, Saverio Okeny, has said.
By David Kyetume
OVER 505 classrooms have been constructed in Masindi district to strengthen the Universal Primary Education Programme in the last four years, the LC5 vice- chairman, Saverio Okeny, has said.
Okeny said 1,100 primary school teachers had also been recruited in the same period, bringing the total staffing to 2,100 teachers.
This was contained in a report recently released to the district council.
The council meeting presided over by the speaker, Jacob Karubanga, was considering the relocation of Masindi Public School and sale of the properties that accommodated it.
“We are constructing a new seven-classroom block at a different site we have already acquired in town and the disposal process for property that housed the school is on,†Okeny said.
He said the district council had purchased the properties from the Departed Asians Property Board as an investment. It is now selling them to raise funds and acquire shares in Kinyara Sugar Works Ltd.
The district chairman, John Majara, said the new block would be ready by next February, in time for the first term. Ends
OVER 505 classrooms have been constructed in Masindi district to strengthen the Universal Primary Education Programme in the last four years, the LC5 vice- chairman, Saverio Okeny, has said.
Okeny said 1,100 primary school teachers had also been recruited in the same period, bringing the total staffing to 2,100 teachers.
This was contained in a report recently released to the district council.
The council meeting presided over by the speaker, Jacob Karubanga, was considering the relocation of Masindi Public School and sale of the properties that accommodated it.
“We are constructing a new seven-classroom block at a different site we have already acquired in town and the disposal process for property that housed the school is on,†Okeny said.
He said the district council had purchased the properties from the Departed Asians Property Board as an investment. It is now selling them to raise funds and acquire shares in Kinyara Sugar Works Ltd.
The district chairman, John Majara, said the new block would be ready by next February, in time for the first term. Ends