More than 1 billion VND to support candidates in difficult circumstances

This year, Gia Lai province's high school graduation exam has 2,615 candidates supported with a total budget of 1.087 billion VND. The lowest support level is 450 thousand VND/student, the highest is 1.2 million VND/student to support students and their families in terms of living conditions, food, accommodation, and transportation.

Director of Gia Lai Departmentof Education and Training Le Duy Dinh said that supporting candidates with difficult circumstances and ethnic minority children to take the high school graduation exam has been implemented by Gia Lai province for many years and has become a bright spot in the country. The support level is also increasing, proving that this work is increasingly attracting the attention of local Party committees and authorities and this is a very humane thing to do, helping candidates feel secure in taking the exam.

In the 2024 high school graduation exam, Gia Lai province has 15,249 candidates registered to take the exam, including 14,415 12th graders and 834 independent candidates. Based on the exam regulations and the number of registered candidates, the Department of Education and Training has inspected and selected 41 exam sites in 17 districts, towns and cities with 654 official exam rooms. In addition, the Department also arranged 1 backup exam site in each locality and backup exam rooms at the official exam sites.

The Department of Education and Training also mobilized about 2,480 civil servants, public employees, and workers in the entire sector; at the same time, in coordination with the Provincial Police and the Department of Health, mobilized about 330 officers, soldiers, and 43 doctors and nurses to perform duties in the Examination Council's committees. The program "Supporting the Examination Season" is being implemented by the Provincial Youth Union with the participation of a large number of union members and youth from localities.

In the face of the current rainy and windy situation in the province, the Gia Lai Department of Education and Training has also directed units to check the lighting system at the examination sites to serve the examination; at the same time, prepare a plan to pick up and drop off candidates if the weather is complicated and traveling to the examination sites is difficult.

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