Stressing on the need to make education employment-oriented, Punjab Education Minister Pargat Singh on Monday said it was important to look at the demand of the industries and the employment prospects while preparing the courses so that the students could stand on their own feet after graduation.
Pargat Singh, while addressing a function to hand over appointment letters to 693 newly-recruited school librarians, also urged the youth to work constructively and positively in the State’s development.
The Minister said that libraries and books play an important role in nurturing and shaping up the personality of the students and called upon the librarians to inculcate book culture in the schools.
He said apart from school syllabus, literary and sports activities play an important role in the overall development of the students. He expressed confidence that recruitment of librarians will give a new look to school libraries.
Welcoming the newly-recruited librarians in the department, he said that today’s children are more and more attached to the electronic devices which should be connected with the books.
The Education Department has recruited 14,500 teachers in the last four and a half years and in addition to the appointment letters handed over today, 18,900 more teacher recruitment are in the pipeline and the process will be completed soon and appointment letters would be handed over to the selected candidates, said the Minister.
At the same time, he directed the authorities to address the demands of the teachers unions so that the issues could be resolved immediately.