627 schools are being built in Khuzestan as part of the educational justice development movement

Ahvaz - The governor of Khuzestan announced the construction of 627 schools in the form of 3,687 classrooms in the province due to the need to improve the educational environment of the province per capita.

According to Mehr reporter, Seyyed Mohammad Reza Mowalizadeh said at noon this Saturday in the ceremony of the movement for the development of justice in the educational space and the simultaneous exploitation of school renovation projects, in the presence of the president, he said: I sincerely thank and appreciate the efforts of those involved in this auspicious event and the development of educational spaces in the province.

Referring to the statistics of the ongoing projects, he added: the number of approved projects in the province is 627 schools in the form of 3,687 classrooms, of which 300 schools in the form of 1,160 classrooms have been built so far, and 150 schools in the form of 540 classrooms will be operated in October this year.

Referring to the equipment provided, Khuzestan Governor stated: In the past year, more than 36,500 student desks and chairs and more than 4,000 coolers have been delivered, and the cost of this equipment has amounted to one hemat.

Referring to the projects of Hamidieh city, Mowalizadeh noted: 11 schools in the form of 42 classrooms have been delivered in Hamidieh in the past few years, and today a six-grade middle school with a credit of 20 billion tomans will be opened on a land with an area of 1,600 square meters and an infrastructure of 780 square meters.

Referring to the student population of the province, he said: In the province, we have more than one million and 150 thousand students and more than 80 thousand preschoolers, which is a total of more than one million and 200 thousand people, and the per capita educational space of the province is 4.90 square meters, while this figure in the country is 5.59 square meters.

The governor of Khuzestan emphasized the necessity of improving the education per capita and said: If we can build new schools and organize connexion, stone and depreciated schools, we can reach the per capita and national average and fortunately, we have taken a suitable increasing trend compared to the previous years.

Emphasizing the simultaneous attention to the hardware and software part of education, Mowalizadeh stated: We must work non-stop, diligently and round the clock and with great diligence in order to achieve the desired goals in the path of development and excellence, as emphasized by our martyr Imam and Supreme Leader.

The governor of Khuzestan expressed his appreciation for the collective cooperation in these projects: Today we witnessed the opening of a school with the help of the benefactors of school builders, the cooperation of the Governor's Deputy for Construction, the General Department of School Renovation, and the Program and Budget Organization, and this work is the result of collective cooperation. We hope to see the development of educational spaces in the province day by day.