Assam: Girls-Only Schools to be Converted Into Co-Educational Institutes

GUWAHATI: The Assam government has decided to not convert gender-specific schools into co-educational institutes.

The Assam government has announced to convert the girls-only schools run by the state into co-educational ones and allow admission of boys as well in the same institutes.

The girls-only schools were built to ensure females have a right to education in a safe and secure environment at a time when education was a luxury for women. To ensure parents of females do not stop education only because of the gender-neutral norm, some schools will continue to stay gender-specific.

The cabinet meeting headed by Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma held in Guwahati on Thursday has taken the decision to have co-education in all state-run schools. Sharing imagery of major cabinet decisions on Twitter, Dr Sarma informed "To ensure gender equality, all schools under state government to have co-educational facility except for a few girls' schools with long history and traditions."

Meanwhile, the cabinet has taken some other decisions as well which will change the face of school education in Assam. In a major revamp, the government has decided to introduce a dual medium of instruction – English, and Assamese in all government-run schools from class 6 to class 12.

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