Overview

• Mission Education has enrolled 1,608 schools for renovation under its two-year ₹400 crore programme, with nearly 90% of projects nearing completion.
• Despite these efforts, only about 3,000 to 4,000 of Meghalaya’s roughly 14,000 government Lower Primary schools have been refurbished, leaving around half still in disrepair.
• Rakkam Sangma renovated 45 schools in his Rongara-Siju constituency using ₹2 lakh per school from his annual MLA Local Area Development allocation.
• He called on all state legislators to use their ₹2.5 crore development funds for school upgrades rather than engage in partisan criticism.
• The Trinamool Congress mocked his appeal, accusing the government of abdicating its core responsibilities by shifting renovation duties to MLAs and MPs.