Punjab Govt to set up a Regulatory Commission

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To ascertain sufficient infrastructure along with modern educational facilities in private colleges and universities in Punjab, the State Government would form a Regulatory Commission soon.

Presiding over a meeting of Vice-Chancellors of Universities and Principals of Colleges of the State, Punjab Higher Education Minister Surjit Singh Rakhra said that the main purpose is to provide better infrastructure to the colleges as well as the quality education to the students of the State.

Rakhra said that the proposed Regulatory Commission would not only keep check on the available educational facilities and infrastructure but also ascertain their proper functioning.

The Minister said that the Government had issued Rs 2 crore grant to each and every government college in the state to raise its educational infrastructure. He also announced to start English and Economics in these colleges from the upcoming session.  

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