City schools facing severe drop in student strength

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a bid to salvage government schools in the city with dwindling student strength, the city Corporation has asked school authorities to make constructive intervention to increase admissions to their institutions in the new academic year.

At a meeting of school headmasters held here recently, Corporation education standing committee chairman G.R. Anil directed them to form school-level support groups, involving teachers, parents, respective ward councillors and other stakeholders, to conduct house-to-house campaign to create awareness on the infrastructural and academic facilities in their schools.