As per the latest Economic Survey-2021, Punjab has reported the highest attendance rate in the country of 61.6 per cent of the children in the age group of three to five years — that is early childhood education.
“Punjab has emerged as a pioneer State in the country which has succeeded in bringing in revolutionary qualitative improvement in school education during the past three years,” said the state School Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla on Thursday adding that Punjab is witnessing a renaissance era in school education.”With a view to strengthen the foundation of learning level from the very beginning, our Government is also the first in the country to start pre-primary classes on November 14, 2017. This achievement also marks the continuous efforts of the schools teachers as well who have been working hard to transform the government schools,” he said.Singla said that the dedicated efforts have fructified in form of overwhelming response from the community as in academic session 2018-19, the enrollment in pre-primary was 2.13 lakh; in 2019-20, it rose to 2.25 lakh; and in the current academic session, 2020-21, the Government schools have witnessed unprecedented enrollment of around 3.30 lakh students. “It indicated the change in the mindset as well as the trust being reposed by people in the reforms in school education in Punjab,” he added.
Keeping in view the positive change in the public mindset, which could be gauged from increase in enrollment, the Punjab government has started recruitment of 8393 pre-primary teachers, he added.