To impart quality coaching of medical and engineering subjects to the Government school students in villages at their doorstep, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Tuesday gave nod for starting ‘online tutorials’ for these courses in the rural Government schools of the State.
The decision this effect was taken by the Chief Minister while presiding over a high level meeting to review the Edusat program. Badal, taking part in deliberations, underscored the need for bridging the widening gap between rural and urban sectors especially in the field of professional education.
“The need of the hour is to evolve a mechanism so that brilliant students from villages can compete with their convent educated peers from the cities,” he said. Badal said that ultra-modern technology must be utilised in an apt manner so as to reach a large number of students besides providing access of quality professional education to them even in the remotest part of the state.
Chief Minister, while giving green signal to the ambitious project to provide ‘Online Tutorials’ in the subjects of Physics, Chemistry, Maths and Biology after matric, said that it would act as a game changer for rural students who aspire to scale new heights in the field of engineering and medical science.
“Though urban students have a number of opportunities to get coaching in the cities, it is the students from rural backgrounds who are unable to perform up to the mark due to lack of professional coaching,” he said. Moreover, Badal said that private players were minting money through such tutorials whereas this online program of the State Government aims to impart quality professional training the rural students at a very nominal cost.
These interactive courses would be firstly started in 100 schools of the State, to be later extended to other schools, he added.During the meeting the Chief Minister was apprised that for 100 schools, this project would entail an expenditure of Rs4.5 crore in which students would be provided course materials through these tutorials.
The course would include contact sessions, query resolution and archives section for the ensuring the better performance of the students. likewise, class coordinators would also be deployed for streamlining this project.