Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday witnessed a mock drill underway at the National Security Guard's (NSG) 'Gandiv-5' program in Lucknow.
The chief minister witnessed the NSG commandos performing the mock drill at the UP Legislative Assembly as part of Gandhiv-5 program.
Meanwhile, in another development, the Uttar Pradesh government decided to conduct an audit of over 1.3 lakh state-run schools to ascertain safety and usability of buildings.
The education department has come up with an audit checklist for inspection of school buildings and room-to-room observations along with external areas of the campus.
Director general school education Vijay Kiran Anand has asked all basic education officers to categorise school buildings as very good, good, bad and very bad.
The rating will be based on parameters such as boundary wall, floor, brickwork in walls, staircase and ramps, toilets, and fire, electrical and flood safety.
"Besides carrying out reconstruction of dilapidated buildings, we are checking the existing buildings for structural stability by conducting an elaborate school safety audit," Anand said.
The department had identified 13,698 school buildings as rickety which can collapse anytime. Of these, demolition work is in process in 7,100 schools. BSAs have been asked to mark the range of defects - cracks, seepage, and dampness - for the observation of columns, beams, walls and slabs.
With inputs from PTI
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