The government will build new 174 classrooms in secondary schools in Narok county in preparation for Competence Based Curriculum transition.
County commissioner Evans Achoki said that a total of 127 schools will benefit from the project that is supposed to be complete by April.
He said this is in readiness for the transition from primary school to junior secondary under the new curriculum.
Achoki spoke to the media after holding a CBC infrastructure committee meeting on Monday.
“Schools with a huge population will get three classrooms while those with fewer students will benefit from one classroom each,” he said.
The commissioner said the classrooms will be constructed at a cost of Sh136 million by the local contractors as a way of empowering them.
“I am urging all the contractors in the county to apply for the job in their respective deputy county commissioner’s offices," he said.
"We will evaluate all the applications before awarding the contract to the qualified contractors.”
The administrator also noted that those eligible to apply are sole proprietors, those in partnership business and those running limited companies.
He warned that those who will be involved in any corruption scandal will be immediately disqualified and arraigned in a court of law.
Narok West subcounty will take the lion's share with 36 classrooms while Narok South and Transmara West subcounties will each get 32 classrooms.
Thirty classrooms will be constructed in Transmara East while Narok North will get 28 classrooms. Narok East subcounty will get 17 classrooms because few schools are in the area.
On her part, the Narok director of education Jane Njogu called upon the school heads and the board of management to cooperate in identifying the best sites to construct the classrooms.
“There will be a double intake to secondary schools in the year 2023, hence the community should support the government projects to make them successful,” Njogu said.
During Mashujaa Day celebrations, President Uhuru Kenyatta directed the allocation of Sh8 billion to support construction of 10,000 additional classrooms to support a double transition of an estimated 2.5 milliomn learners to secondary schools.
The move is aimed at ensuring a seamless transition for an estimated one million students set to join junior secondary school and 1.4 million Class 8 leavers set to join secondary schools.
The directive for additional funding is in anticipation for a double transition in 2023.
This is when the last cohort of the 8-4-4 system transits to Form 1 and the CBC pioneers join junior secondary school - grades 7, 8 and 9.
The Head of State directed the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Interior and National Treasury to work jointly on a framework to enhance school infrastructure.
