Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s initiative to provide quality residential education to State’s meritorious students was kick-started by the State Education Minister Dr Daljeet Singh Cheema on Thursday.
He unveiled vision paper that focused on grooming students of these residential schools to crack competitive exams like IIT JEE, AIPMT, CA, Company Secretary besides the premier Civil Services exams.Felicitating the students at Senior Secondary Residential School of Meritorious Students at Sector 70, Dr Cheema said that these students are the cream of intellects selected from all over the State and it was the duty of education department to ensure that they excel in their chosen academic fields.
“The education department has already organised specialised and individual coaching classes for meritorious students… I hope that with the collective efforts, these students would bring laurels to the State by cracking premier competitive exams,” he said.
later interacting with students from non-medical stream, Dr Cheema motivated them stating that cracking IIT should be the goal of all students as Punjab government is ready to provide additional support and academic coaching to these students.He also gave a call to medical students to academically excel in their studies to become doctors.
Emphasising the need for nurturing talented grass root level, he said that education department has already initiated a scheme to spot such talent at a younger age so as to groom them according to their potential.Project Director of Residential Schools lt Gen KS Bhullar (retd) apprised the minister that the session in six residential schools has been commenced. “Free education, hostel, food and other facilities are being provided to these students… As many as 331 students have got admissions in Mohali Residential School out of which 225 are of non-medical stream, 54 of commerce and 52 of medical where well-qualified and expert 18 teachers have been deputed,” he added.
He said that special arrangements have also been made for the facilitation of physically challenged students in school premises according to their convenience.