Punjab Education Minister Om Parkash Soni on Sunday said that Government schools in the State will be equipped with computers and will be brought at par with the private ones.
He said that the State Government has removed the shortage of teachers in border areas and hoped the results of schools in these areas will be better this year.
“Government schools will be equipped with computers and smart classrooms and will be brought at par with the best private schools,” he said while presiding over a function to pay tributes to country’s first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru in Amritsar.
He also said teachers should become ideal teachers as country’s future is in their hands.
Soni said the country’s first Prime Minister had shown a new path to the nation. We should all strive hard to walk on the path shown by him, he said. Soni, who is also the Environment Minister, said “It is our duty to save the environment”.
With the cooperation of farmers, stubble burning incidents have been less this year and air quality index has improved a lot in Punjab, he added.