"The MHRD has declared Jammu and Kashmir as the second most proactive state after Himachal Pradesh in adopting new initiatives in education," state education minister Altaf Bukhari said.
Bukhari said the announcement in this regard was made at the Northern Zonal Conference of Education Department held here today.
He said Jammu and Kashmir's performance has been highly appreciated for actively implementing the new initiatives in the education sector.
He equally hailed the contribution of the private sector in furthering the government's agenda of making quality education available and affordable for the students.
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The meeting was chaired by Union Secretary, MHRD, Anil Swarup.
The representatives of different states provided the details about the progress of the activities related to school education in their respective states, an official spokesman said.
He also reviewed implementation of centrally-sponsored schemes and asked the representatives of states to gear up for achieving the objectives of schemes.
The meeting also discussed road map to achieve goals in infrastructure building, training, DIETs and up-gradation of school education.
Swarup expressed keen interest in upgrading the infrastructure of school education in J&K and hoped that it is one of the priority sectors of the state, the spokesman said.
"Idea to meet here is that states with similar or difficult things do and learn from each other," Swarup said.
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