Tuesday 2 February 2016

Three new meritorious schools at Sangrur, Ferozepur and Gurdaspur to start in new academic year



To impart free and quality education to poor and meritorious students, the state government is all set to start three new residential schools.Punjab to open three more schools for meritorious students this year.For the Promotion of Quality Education for Poor.To take forward progressive agenda of imparting free and quality education to the poor but meritorious students the Punjab government is all set to start academics in three new Residential schools for meritorious students at Sangrur, Ferozepur and Gurdaspur.


To impart free education to the poor and brilliant students. The facilities extended to brilliant students in this schools included free hostel, food and special coaching for the competitive examination. Punjab Govt has opened six Meritorious schools at Amritsar, Bhatinda, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Patiala & Mohali under the "society for Promotion of Quality Education for Poor & Meritorious Student of Punjab" for students from Govt. schools who have scored more than 80% marks in Matric. The students are provided free education, lodging/boarding, books , stationary & uniforms. 

The school routine is scheduled to ensure overall development with emphasis on academics. State of art infrastructure is in place and the concept shall be proliferated by the Govt. in other districts of Punjab, if found successful. The Minister further said that this ambitious project was envisaged by Mr. Parkash Singh Badal, Chief Minister, Punjab and from the academic session 2014-15 six Resdential senior secondary meritorious schools started education at Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Patiala, Bathinda and SAS Nagar (Mohali). In each of the school student strength were fixed 600 students of 11th and 12th standard students for Medical, Non Medical and Commerce streams.  The 7thmeritorious school was set up at Talwara (Hoshiarpur) from the academic session 2015-16 for only Arts stream. It is an extremely outstanding job for Punjab and its people.

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