Punjab to subsidise education for intelligent students

Chandigarh. May 1 (UNI) The Punjab government today announced to recruit BEd teachers to fill vacant vacancues and to reserve the budgetary share for education so as to subsidise quality education for the intelligent poor students.

This announcement was made by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal while addressing a delegation of the BEd Unemployed Teachers Front here.

He said that the state government was committed to complete the requisite modalities for recruitment of BEd teachers. The government was keen to complete the recruitment process with in next two months in order to facilitate a smooth transition into the next academic session beginning in July.

He said that the state government intends to put the teachers at the center stage of government's vision of education and would undertake a comprehensive initiative to raise their social standing and economic status. Expressing deep concern over what he described as a total collapse of the educational structure especially at the primary and secondary levels he directed the Education Department to formulate a policy aimed at lifting the academic and intellectual standards of students to equip them with skills needed for competitive excellence not only with in the country but also globally.

He further said that concepts of Adarsh Schools was also an important component of the state government's approach to the issue.

He said that education could be meaningful only if it was made accessible to the poorest of the poor, with special focus on "mentally gifted but economically weaker students".

He also added that an elitist approach education had resulted in the academic crisis now griping the state. Education Minister Upinderjit Kaur, and Principal Secretary School Education K B S Sidhu were also present on the occasion.

UNI