Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal on Tuesday exhorted educational institutions to provide quality education to translate nation’s dream of becoming ‘superpower’ into reality in coming years.
Sukhbir, addressing the students of lM Thapar School of Management campus of Thapar University after its inauguration, said that quality education with a sense of responsibility was need of the hour.
He urged that all educational institutes to serve the nation by imparting quality education bringing massive transformation in educational sector. He also gave a call to purge away the ‘quantity’ education from academic system to tap great talent amongst Indian students.
Sukhbir said that eco-system for education should be created and it was sole mission of Punjab Government to establish this productivity system in New Chandigarh. “Punjab is creating Educity and Medicity in New Chandigarh where Airtel and Mahindra and Mahindra are coming with world class professional education institutes while Fortis, Vedanta and Apollo would setup their medical educational ventures in Medi-City,” he said.
He added that the state was also setting up world class infrastructure in education and other sectors to facilitate the incoming industrial houses besides enabling our students to compete at global level.
Describing IT as spine of current tech era, he said that Punjab is going to launch the concept of ‘Sewa Kenders’ throughout the State to provide 249 citizen centric services at village level.