hubballi government schools in rural areas in the district are now being turned into model schools the schools are looking colourful and grabbing the attention of villagers under the mahatma gandhi national rural employment guarantee act mgnrega scheme schools have been developed in rural areas authorities have made compound walls toilets playgrounds bhojanalayas and sports facilities and painted the buildings beautifully to attract rural students and increase enrollment for the academic year most of the schools development work has been completedthe state government has started developing all rural schools across the state in order to make them attractive and to increase the strength of students in each government school now the department has geared up to bring in changes in the government schools to make them model schools to compete with private schools the development work of schools has been taken up under mgnregathe schools which were deprived of the basic facilities have been identified by the zilla panchayat and development work has been don there sources saidwe are trying our best to develop government schools as a result now bendalagatti government school in kalaghatagi taluk has attracted the attention of villagers drawing teachers have painted the compound wall with pictures of animals vidhana soudha jog falls and others headmaster krishna c said he said that parents are ready to send their wards to government schools now the development was done like in private schools thanks to mgnrega for developing schools in the district he said zp ceo suresh itnal said that under mgnrega the government is developing more than 100 schools and work on most of the schools are complete some work is in the final stage i am happy that good infrastructure is being given to these schools i request the sdmc committee to maintain the toilets and other infrastructure grants have been provided for maintenance also he saidto encourage sports among students many sports facilities such as a kho kho court kabaddi court and basketball court have been made we have already spent around rs 30 crore for the development of schools we are developing schools on the lines of private schools he said