Foundation stone of Sanskriti school laid in Lucknow

Lucknow, Feb 13 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav Friday laid the foundation stone of the Sanskriti school to be built in the state capital, on the lines of the acclaimed Sanskriti school in New Delhi.

The school will come up at the CG City, in the Chak Ganjaria region at Lucknow on 10 acres of land and its buildings and other infrastructure would cost roughly about Rs.109 crore, an official said.

For the school, the state government has provided the land free of cost.

The school will have classes from Nursery to class XII and would admit around 2,760 students.

The cost incurred in the construction of the school will be borne by the housing department from the resources of the state government.

In the first phase, the state government has arranged Rs.five crore and the executing agency for the school's construction will be Lucknow Development Authority (LDA).

Each class in the school will have six sections and in every section, there would be a cap of maximum 30 students.

Work on Detailed Project Report (DPR), related to the construction of the school, has been completed and work on the project would begin in April.

To manage and run the school, a society under the chairmanship of the chief secretary, under the Society Registration Act, has already been constituted and it has now become functional.