Taking a serious note of the school admission round the corner, Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday urged the Congress-led Punjab Government to immediately take steps to regulate admission or readmission fee structure and purchase of books in various private schools across the state.
“Adequate steps should be taken to stop commercialisation of education in Punjab and funds should be increased to government schools so as to bring at par with the private ones,” said senior AAP leader and the leader of Opposition in Punjab Vidhan Sabha HS Phoolka.
He said that strict instructions have been issued to many private schools in Delhi regarding fee and admission and excellent results have been derived by the AAP Government.
Talking about the recent government instructions passed on to stop funding of various civic projects running in various towns and villages, Phoolka said that the projects which are in the pipeline should not be scrapped as it may cause public inconvenience and sufferings to common man.
“In line with the recent High Court judgment regarding transfer of funds directly to Gram Panchayats, requisite steps should be taken and guidelines be issued so that various bureaucratic hurdles may be removed from the smooth and hassle free transfer of funds to Gram Panchayats.” Phoolka said.