Molom, Dec 21: Chief Minister Pema Khandu today inaugurated the new building of the Government Upper Primary School and a Community Hall during his day-long visit here at Molom village in Siang district.
Launching the Rumgong Vikas Abhiyan at a public meeting, Khandu congratulated the people on getting the new building and called upon them to treat it with care for optimum utilization. While reiterating the government’s stand of prioritizing education, he informed that despite having about 16594 regular teachers to run 3513 government schools, which include 211 community schools, quality of education is not satisfactory. “Our government is committed to revamp and revitalize the education sector and State Cabinet has also adopted the Arunachal Pradesh Teachers’ Transfer & Posting Policy-2020 which will now guide the department for rationalizing transfers and postings of teachers in a transparent manner so that each school, no matter how remotely situated, will have adequate number of teachers,” he said. Chief Minister, however pointed that quality in education will not improve if only left to government and active participation and joint cooperation of parents, elders and community members are essential for creating a conducive atmosphere for bringing qualitative improvement and educational growth of students. Lauding the Community Based Organizations (CBOs) for coming forward and adopting schools in their respective jurisdictions, he said that this will greatly reduce government’s supervisory burden and ensure discipline both amongst students and teachers and encouraged all CBOs to imbibe the trend.
He also laid the foundation stone of the road connecting Rumgong ADC headquarters with Kaying, which is an EAC headquarter and assured that funds have already been sanctioned for the first phase (Molom to Bogne) and work will commence soon. 

The road once completed will connect Kaying administrative division with the district headquarters and rest parts of Siang district internally. Hailing Siang belt as abundantly blessed by Mother Nature, Khandu expressed gratitude to the residents for being the producers of various horti and agri produces besides rice, the staple crop. “The central belt of our state, of which Siang district is a part has a great scope for industrialization with its vast land resources and varied agri-horti produces. This region will become an industrial hub and provide employment opportunities to our youths in near future,” he predicted. Speaking about the newly launched Arunachal Pradesh State Industrial & Investment Policy 2019, CM informed that for effecting industrial growth and creating employment opportunities, incentives will be given to the identified thrust areas like tourism, food processing & agro based industries, textiles & handicrafts, agri-horti processing, hydropower etc and the Policy will provide a single window system to facilitate all clearances, approvals, licenses and permissions for setting up industries.
Arunachal East MP Tapir Gao, Home Minister Bamang Felix, Health Minister Alo Libang and MLAs Ninong Ering, Kaling Moyong, Talem Taboh, Kanggong Taku and Ojing Tasing were present on the occasion.CMO

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