To ensure all-round development of rural students across the State, the Punjab Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with International Award for Young People to initiate a premier self-development program in its Government schools.
DPI (Schools) Kamal Kumar Garg and representative of International Award for Young People Bivujit Mukhoty inked the MoU on Friday in the presence of the Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.
Expressing happiness over the MoU, Badal said that this was a leap forward towards State Government’s commitment to provide quality education to the students especially of the rural areas besides ensuring their overall personality development.
“In the first phase, this program would be started as a pilot project in two districts of Sri Muktsar Sahib and Bathinda, under which the organisation would select 20 students each from the 14 schools, seven schools from each district, of these two districts. Students within the age group of 14 to 25 years would be imparted training in community service, skill development, physical recreation, adventurous journey and residential recreation so as to groom their personality for competing globally,” said Badal.
He added that the main aim of this program was to build the confidence of the students through motivating and training them in these fields.
Chief Minister said that the Government schools across the State were already fully equipped with the requisite infrastructure needed for implementing this program adding that the State Government would extend fulsome support and cooperation to the organisation for making this program a huge success.
“After the successful accomplishment of this program in these two districts, its ambit would be extended to other districts also. In order to facilitate the students, the number of schools in every district would also be increased accordingly,” he added.
Tribute paid to Bibi Badal on death anniversary
Malout (Sri Muktsar Sahib): Eminent personalities from all walks of life paid floral tributes to late Surinder Kaur Badal, wife of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, on her second death anniversary.
Striking an emotional chord with the gathering, Badal said that his wife had special affection with the residents of Malout area due to which she played a vanguard role in the all-round development of this area, till her last breath.
Expressing gratitude to the people of Malout for showering love and respect to the Badal family especially to late Bibi Badal, he said that they would ever remain indebted to the people of the area for this noble gesture.
Also thanking people for rallying solidly behind Badal family in all sorts of situation even in the most tiring circumstances, Badal said that they would continue to serve the constituency with full zeal and dedication to cherish the aspirations of people of Malout besides realizing the unfulfilled dreams of late Bibi Surinder Kaur Badal.