81 kindergartens opened in S Kazakhstan over 7 months
14:57, 26 September 2011
SHYMKENT. September 26. KAZINFORM /Tatyana Pylayeva/ 81 kindergartens covering 8,906 children have been opened in South Kazakhstan region over seven months of 2011; the akimat (administration) of South Kazakhstan oblast reports.
"As the report of South Kazakhstan governor Askar Myrzakhmetov on the region's development over seven months informs, today the total number of preschool establishments makes 501 entities. 50,398 children are covered with kindergartens," the akimat's press service reports.
"The coverage of children with preschool education within the Balapan program increased by 6.5 percent and reached 36.9 percent. The children's coverage will reach 50 percent by the year-end," the report reads.