DHARAMSHALA: Kalon Ngodup Tsering of the Department of Education paid a visit to Lower Tibetan Children’s Village school and Sambhota Mewoen Peton School on 1 October to observe the Classroom Reading Corner and interacted with the students.

As part of its effort to improve primary education, the Department of Education is providing Class Room Reading Corner facilities for 193 classrooms of 54 Tibetan schools across india wherein these schools will receive 400 children’s story books for each reading corner.

The Department of Education have already established reading corners for Lower Tibetan Children’s Village School and Sambhota Mewoen Peton school. It is soon going to establish reading corners for rest of the Tibetan schools by providing books, financial assistance and Guidelines based on the above two schools.

in order to foster reading habits in children, the department has already provided early grade reading workshops to 257 teachers in the past two years and will continue to provide the same to 119 primary school teachers in the coming years to cover the entire primary teachers in Tibetan schools.

The programs are funded by USAID through The Tibet Fund.

– Report filed by Department of Education –