Port Blair, Dec 12: The President, Pradesh Congress Committee Mr. Kuldeep Rai Sharma has written a letter to the Lt Governor and demanded Minority Status the Minority Educational institutions of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
In his letter Sharma has stated that minority schools viz Carmel Senior Secondary School, Nirmala Senior Secondary school, St Mary Secondary school and St Mary Primary School, Khalsa school, Ummat Senior Secondary School, MES School etc are running in and around Port Blair.
Advocating for such schools, Sharma further wrote that all these schools are producing meritorious students every year and getting extraordinary results in CBSE examinations.
Not only this, their students are also showing outstanding performances in various competitions conducted by the AN Administration and other institutins.
Sharma also wrote that in case these schools get Minority status as per the orders and policies framed by the Government of India, this will be a great help to the management of these schools to run their institutions more effectively and efficiently and requested to consider taking up the matter of granting immediate Minority Status to the schools with the respective departments of the AN Administration and also with the Government of India.