As a part of slew of measures to ensure quality education to the students of Government schools, the Punjab Government has decided to go in for school upgradation at major level.
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, in a big bonanza to the School Education sector, has accorded approval to upgrade 372 Government high schools in the State to the senior secondary and 162 government middle schools to the high school level.
The state Education Minister Daljit Singh Cheema on Friday said that the approval for the upgradation of schools has been given as per the promise made by Finance Minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa during budget speech in current year.
Profusely thanking the Chief Minister and Finance Minister, Cheema said that with the upgradation of schools at such a gigantic level for the first time, the number of students enrolling in the government schools would witness a vast increase due to the students from concerned areas now being able to get admission in nearby schools.
He informed that those schools have been upgraded who were fulfilling the required criteria regarding requisite space and number of students.
Cheema said that in 372 high schools upgraded to senior secondary level, 34 schools are of ludhiana, 25 of Amritsar, 11 each of Barnala, Faridkot and Kapurthala, 26 of Bathinda, 27 of Sangrur, 17 each of Fazilka, Gurdaspur, Mansa, 22 of Hoshiarpur, seven of Fatehgarh Sahib, 18 of Ferozepur, 24 each of Jalandhar and Patiala, 15 each of Tarn Taran and Moga, nine of SAS Nagar (Mohali), eight each of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and Pathankot, 10 of Ropar and 13 of Sri Muktsar Sahib are included.
Among the 162 schools upgraded from middle to high school level, 15 schools are of Bathinda district, 14 of Amritsar, 11 each of Moga and Hoshiarpur, nine each of ludhiana, Patiala, SAS Nagar (Mohali) and Ferozepur, eight each of Gurdaspur, Fazilka and Kapurthala, 12 of Jalandhar, 13 of Sangrur, six each of Pathankot and Sri Muktsar Sahib, five of Mansa, four of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar, seven of Ropar, three of Faridkot and one of Tarn Taran are included.