GUJRAT: The Punjab government has approved a grant of Rs 10 million for the construction of special classrooms for playgroup age kids in public sector schools in the district.

The move is aimed at attracting children for enrolement in nursery classes of the same schools later on.

The teachers who will handle playgroup classes have been trained tokeep theinterest ofthe kidsattached tothe classroom and school. As many as 115 public sector schools have been given special classrooms in the district.

Gujrat Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Ali Randhawa said this while chairing a meeting of the District Education Review Committee here on Wednesday where officials of the Education department were also present.

The DC said that a group of selected teachers had been trained and given kits having various tools for attracting the kids.

An official of the education department who was also among the participants of the meeting said each special classroom would be given an LCD screen, colouring box, small toys, colour pencils, blocks depicting the alpha batiks of the English and Urdu languages and other things of children`s interest.

The meeting also reviewed the overall performance of the education department, particularly the attendance of teachers and provision of missing facilities.