MCD drafts 'Vision@2047' to improve education with infra upgrade, tech

The MCD has prepared a roadmap to improve the quality of primary education in Delhi with a 'vision document' focussing on the development of sports infrastructure, safety and hygiene in schools, and educating students about gender equality.

Under 'Vision@2047', the Municipal Corporation of Delhi will focus on various initiatives to bolster its mechanism to impart primary education into a result-oriented system, officials said.

"Marching forward with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision to make India a developed nation by 2047 under the 'Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav' and to improve the quality of primary education in Delhi, the education department of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has prepared a roadmap -- 'Vision@2047'," the MCD said in a statement.

In this direction, the civic body is implementing the National Education Policy 2020 in all its schools with all provisions, it said.

The MCD has planned to promote the use of the mother tongue as the medium of education at the primary