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An official notification said The Assam government has decided to create a new school education department by merging the existing two.
Primary and secondary education departments are being merged to form a new one; All officers and employees of the two departments will come under the administrative control of the School Education Department. All correspondence relating to the existing departments will also henceforth be done in the name of the new one.
The Department of Administrative Reforms issued the notification earlier this week. All the existing departments and agencies of the two departments will be under the administrative control of school education. The notification did not mention any reasons for the merger.
Recently, the state government announced the closure of schools after poor results in the Assam Class 10 exams this year, later correcting it as a school merger and not closure after receiving criticism.
