Vice President John Dramani Mahama has announced government’s intention to construct an extra 200 community day senior high schools in each district in the country to enhance access to secondary education. Speaking at a TEIN NDC rally at the University of Ghana, the Vice President said, each of the 200 community day senior high schools will consist of two-story twelve unit classroom blocks, another six unit classroom block to serve as a computer laboratory, library and staff common room and a teachers’ bungalow. Each of the 200 projects will cost 1 million dollars and is expected to be completed by 2014. Touching on the importance of secondary education, the Vice President said, the current statistics where only 13.4 percent of Ghanaians had access to secondary education did not augur well for the country’s image as a middle income country. He also decried the situation where only 44.6 percent of students who qualified to enter secondary education during last year’s basic education certificate examination gained admission. Touting the achievements of the NDC government since they took office in 2009, the Vice President said, government has increased the capitation grant from 3 to 4.5 cedis. He also indicated, over 2,000 out of the estimated 4,300 schools under trees have been eliminated and the construction of facilities to eradicate the remaining schools under trees were far advanced. He accused his political opponents of playing politics with the country’s macro-economic stability, noting the NDC had made strides in reducing inflation to a single digit. This he indicated had helped the SME sector of the economy to grow their businesses. He also charged students to take active interest in the pending voter registration exercise which begins on the 24th of this month.