Punjab Government, in a noble initiative aimed at imparting free quality education to the brilliant poor students of the State, has earmarked a sum of Rs8 crore as financial assistance to these students in the coming financial year.
“The SAD-BJP Government is committed to provide quality education to the poor and weaker sections of the society. Thus, the Government has decided that students studying in Government schools, who manage to secure 80 per cent or more marks in their matriculation examination would be given an annual assistance of Rs30,000 for their two-year senior secondary education, that is Class XI and XII,” stated State Education Minister Sikandar Singh Maluka.
Maluka further said that besides, the State Government would provide free education to girl students belonging to the economically weaker sections of the society, upto class XII in Government schools.
The minister has also asked the Director of General School Education (DGSE), Kahan Singh Pannu to direct all the district education officers (DEOs) and school principals in the State to prepare the list of all the eligible beneficiaries under this scheme.
“All vacant posts of teachers in the Government schools would be filled within a year and efforts would be made to upgrade the basic infrastructure of the school buildings across the State,” he added.