The four phase project of a general education establishment (primary schools and secondary schools) building project that was financed by the Japanese Government`s free grants program has been successfully completed. The project will official end during the opening ceremony for 123rd school in Ulaanbaatar on Friday October 25th.

The large scale project was designed to meet requirements of a master plan for the Mongolian education sector that was approved first in 2006 to create a comfortable study environment. The first phase of the project was launched in 1999.  Since then the project has run through four phases. During all four phases a total of 55 school buildings and 668 classrooms have been built. The total cost of the project is estimated at 10 billion 700 million yen or 178 billion 380 million MNT.

Now over 40 thousand students go to the 45 schools that have been built as part of the project only in Ulaanbaatar.

During the first phase of the project 16 schools and 182 classrooms were built in Ulaanbaatar and handed over with all facilities. During the second phase of the project a total of 117 classrooms and facilities including 3 schools in Darkhan-Uul province and 7 schools in Orkhon province were built and handed over to its principle.

In the framework of the third phase of the project 17 schools and  214 classrooms were built and handed over with the facilities.

In the final phase 12 schools and 155 classrooms were completed and project developers handed over the buildings with the facilities to the school’s administration in Ulaanbaatar.