The Chief Secretary, B V R Subrahmanyam today chaired the 37th meeting of Executive Committee of Sainik School, Manasbal and reviewed its functioning.Principal Secretary, School Education, District Development Commissioner, Ganderbal, Principal, Sainik School, Manasbal, along-with officers of concerned departments participated in the meeting.At the outset the committee reviewed and approved the action taken on the minutes of previous meeting of the Executive Committee.To fully tap the potential of various facilities including experienced faculty and state of art infrastructure available at the school, it was decided that the lateral admissions in class 11th will be allowed from this academic session through entrance examination.In order to augment the human resource requirement towards quality education, recruitment to academic post as well as administrative posts was also accorded sanction. Further, Chief Secretary impressed upon updation of recruitment rules and school rules by 31st August, 2020 so as to streamline all future recruitments of the school.Chief Secretary gave approval to the budget estimates worth Rs. 886.07 lakhs for the financial year 2020-2021 which also includes assistance of Rs. 812.91 lakhs as grant-in-aid from the Government.Floriculture Department was asked to undertake landscaping project for beautification of school premises to make the campus eco-friendly and suitable to the developmental needs of students.