on the recommendation of the Education Department and with the approval of the Resettlement Management Select Committee. Its main aim is to improve the educational standards of those schools by making it possible for teachers to be paid more and for better working facilities to be provided. At the end of the year there were 295 rooftops used as schools, 57 as boys' and girls' clubs, 34 as recreation centres and 15 as vocational training centres.
84. By arrangement with the Education and Social Welfare Depart- ments, ground floor rooms in selected blocks in the newer Mark II estates are reserved for schools and Welfare projects and are allocated on the advice of these departments to suitable voluntary agencies. At the end of the year there were 34 schools in operation on the ground floors of such blocks. Voluntary agencies run these schools as co- educational vernacular primary schools under the Education Depart- ment's subsidy code. Some ground floor rooms are also used as case- work centres and clinics and for a variety of other welfare purposes.
85. A clearer picture may be obtained by examining the work that is being done in one resettlement estate. Kwun Tong estate was com- pleted in June 1961 and has an authorized population of over 60,000 people from 10,000 families. The estate comprises 24 multi-storey re- settlement blocks. There are 19 rooftop schools providing 8,650 primary places, 6 subsidized ground floor schools with 8,700 primary places, and 2 clinics, 2 recreation centres, 3 boys' and girls' clubs, a nursery, a library, 3 vocational training centres and a family planning centre. All these are run by voluntary agencies. In addition, the Social Welfare Department runs two vocational training centres and a Community Centre.
86. It has already been mentioned in Chapter 6 that a new design of resettlement block, sixteen storeys high, is now being built in the new estates. Accommodation for welfare and educational services will continue to be available in these new estates though, for structural reasons, changes are necessary in their location. It will not be possible to use the rooftops of either the Mark III or Mark IV blocks, and there will be no schools on the ground floors. In their place, specially modi- fied top floor accommodation is provided in certain of the Mark III blocks, and although there are no schools inside the large Mark IV blocks, there are six-storey school buildings (each with 24 classrooms) beside many Mark IV buildings. Ground floor accommodation for wel- fare activities will still be provided in some of the blocks in Mark III
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