Shimla, Feb. 26 -- After closing 1,094 primary and middle schools, Sukhvinder Singh Sikhu-led Congress government in Himachal Pradesh is set to denotify/downgrade about 70 secondary schools and denotify 21 colleges with low enrollments. Education minister Rohit Thakur on Tuesday said that on the basis of low number of students and continuously decreasing enrolment, the government has decided to close or merge the educational institutions.

The government is looking at colleges with less than 100 enrolments and there are about 21 such colleges in the state that are likely to be closed. Two colleges are such that were never started. The senior secondary schools that have less than 25 students from class 6 to 12 will be closed or merged. How...