Punjab Government has initiated major reforms in the higher education sector to make the state’s youth employable within the country. Under the Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s leadership, the school, medical, and technical education sectors are being focused upon to ensure a robust educational structure, said the state Higher Education Minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer.
With the reforms initiated by the State Government, not only will the exploitation of teachers end, but higher education will be made affordable, and skill-based, thus, making the teachers employable in the country with provision of jobs, said Hayer while speaking during a state-level seminar on ‘Higher Education in Punjab and New State Government: Hopes, Aspirations, Visions, and the Road Ahead’ at Rayat Bahra University, Mohali organised by Association of Unaided College Teachers’ (AUCT), Punjab and Chandigarh. The seminar was attended by around 400 unaided teachers from colleges across the State and the UT.
The career-oriented higher education is the great need of the present time, said the Minister adding that a committee will be formed to identify and resolve the issues of higher education institutions of Punjab. The Minister called upon the students of colleges and universities to actively participate in the 'Khedan Watan Punjab Deya', a two-day sporting extravaganza being organized by the state government from August 29.
Renowned educationist Dr. Piyara Lal Garg delivered the key-note address while the former Advocate-General Anmol Rattan Singh Sidhu, senior journalist Jatinder Pannu, and Rayat Bahra University Vice-Chancellor Dr Parvinder Singh also participated in the deliberations. The vote of thanks was presented by spokesperson of the AUCT Prof. Tarun Ghai.
The objective of the seminar was to bring the academia, intelligentsia and the government on a common platform to discuss and deliberate upon the burning issues concerning higher education in Punjab and devise a roadmap for its upliftment.