Additional 23 buses be purchased to transport children from remote settlements to schools

Akim of the region Serik Shapkenov reported on the preparation of educational facilities in the region for the new 2023-2024 academic year at a government meeting chaired by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Alikhan Smailov.

According to the head of the region, 143,000 students are planned to be admitted to schools in the new academic year. This year, 4,544,527 million tenge was allocated to equip the material and technical base of educational facilities. It is planned to purchase new buses to transport 4,561 pupils from remote settlements to schools.

“Last year, free travel for schoolchildren was organized on 49 vehicles. In the new academic year, 23 additional buses will be purchased to transport 4,561 students from 60 settlements. 1.1 billion tenge was allocated for these purposes. The motor transport will be put into operation from September. Currently, out of 1,035 school classes, 577 (55.7%) are equipped with modified classrooms. 1,676,370 thousand tenge were allocated to provide textbooks and educational and methodological complexes. Textbooks will be fully delivered and distributed by August 25th. One of the completely solved problems of the region is that in Atyrau all students in grades 1-4 and children from low-income families in grades 5-11 are provided with free hot meals. This measure will be implemented with the start of the new academic year. This year, it is planned to increase the speed of the Internet in 21 schools, 108,332.1 thousand tenge has been allocated for this. As a result, the indicator of Internet provision with a speed of 20 Mbps and more will be 43.3%,” S. Shapkenov said.

It should be noted that today in the region five out of 25 schools have been fully modernized. In the remaining 20 schools, work is being carried out in several areas. They will last until the end of this year.

At the end of the meeting of the Government, the akim of the region instructed the heads of the responsible bodies to speed up the work on the modernization of schools. Also, the head of the region ordered the akim of the city of Atyrau to take control of the issue of providing schools with textbooks until August 25.