Surat, June 25 -- Gujarat Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi on Thursday welcomed 373 Balvatika and Class 1 students into Surat Municipal Corporation-run primary schools during the "Shala Praveshotsav and Kanya Kelavani Mahotsav 2026" held at Khatodara Colony in Surat.

The Deputy Chief Minister attended the programme at Nagar Prathmik Shikshan Samiti Schools No. 45, 46 and 275, where he distributed educational kits, including drawing books and colour pen boxes, to newly admitted students. The children were also presented with handkerchiefs bearing their kumkum footprints as mementoes.

Addressing the gathering, Sanghavi said Shala Praveshotsav had evolved into a major movement for quality education over the past two decades and called ...