Installation of school lockers by end Sept - minister

The first phase of installing lockers in schools will be at the end of this month, said Senior Minister (Education) Mohd Radzi Md Jidin.

He said the initiative, for primary schools with two sessions, is to address the issue of heavy school bags.

“As a start, the first phase of lockers will be installed for Year One and Year Two pupils by October,” he told reporters after an engagement session with media editors in Putrajaya today.

Radzi (above) said the Education Ministry has not finalised the schools that will be involved in the installation of the first phase of lockers and will make an announcement later.

On March 6, Radzi said his ministry will be providing lockers in primary schools as one of the seven approaches to address the heavy school bags issue.

In a related issue, he said the ministry also received positive feedback from state Islamic religious councils which agreed to coordinate the wearing of their respective school uniforms during Al-Quran and Fardu Ain (Kafa) classes.

“The councils agreed that national school uniforms should be used to attend Kafa school sessions,” he said.

In a separate development, he described the hybrid solar project involving Sarawak's rural schools as complicated since it faced many legal issues that need to be examined by the ministry.

“It is a complicated matter that I need to go through and the ministry is looking into it,” said Radzi.

Recently, Sarawak‘s Tourism, Creative Industry, and Performing Arts Minister Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah urged that the hybrid solar project be continued to benefit communities in rural areas.

- Bernama

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