Keeping in the view the current and future needs of the industry to provide jobs to the state’s youth, Punjab Government would make major changes in the courses and syllabus of the technical education.
Announcing this, the state Technical Education and Industrial Training Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Monday said that considering the future of the state’s youth, the government is ready to take every hard decision for the betterment of the technical education.
Channi, interacting with the media persons after surprise checking of the Government Polytechnic College Ranwan and Industrial Training Institute, Bassi Pathana, of Fatehgarh Sahib district, said that the performance of teachers and trainers of all the technical education institutes would be reviewed on regular basis.
The administration of these institutions would be made more efficient and accountable as all the teachers would adopt the students in the relevant trades, he said, adding that the performance of trainers and teachers would be analyzed on the basis adopted students and action against non performers would be initiated.
Earlier, during the checking at Ranwan Polytechnic College, Channi placed under suspension the services of “absent” superintendent Baljeet Kaur, who has been absent from last several days.
Channi, along with the local MlA Gurpreet Singh GP, also conducted surprise a check at ITI Bassi Pathana. He announced to develop ITI Bassi Pathana and Ranwan polytechnic as “model technical education institutes”.
Channi said that the new job-orientated courses would be started and some present courses would be upgraded as per the demands of the present and future needs of the industrial units, the courses which are irrelevant would be closed.
He added that the Department would launch awareness campaign to enroll more students in the government technical education institutions by highlighting facilities which are being provided in the government institutes.