CM asks education dept to prepare a comprehensive plan to impart free higher education Sunday, June,16 2013 CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal with a view to bring a revolution in the higher education, Badal directed the Principal Secretary Higher Education to chalk out a comprehensive plan in coordination with all the Universities for imparting free higher education including hostel and other facilities for the intelligent but poor students of the state with rural background. Expressing concern over the acute shortage of Human Resource Bank, Badal said that to ensure overall development, growth and prosperity in Punjab, their government had made concerted efforts to strengthen educational infrastructure but it would be redundant until we improve our human resource development through imparting quality education to our youth at school, college and university levels especially to the students of the poor section of the society. Badal asked the VCs to prepare a list of all the interested retired professors in various subjects and circulate it to all the Colleges so that they could utilize their expertise optimally as gust faculty. To boost the skill development activities in the state, Badal said, “Skill development through vocational training is the only solution that would enrich our ‘Human Resource Bank’ on one hand and tackle the issue of unemployment on the other”. He further directed all the Vice Chancellors to identify the key areas to enabled our youth for getting successful employment after the completion of their vocational training. On the occasion, the Chief Minister approved to setup ‘Community Colleges’ in the state to impart skill-oriented education of Diploma level with multiple futuristic opportunities for preserving and upgrading traditional skills. He also approved the proposal to setup four such Colleges on Pilot bases under this unique program at Govt. Mohindra College Patiala, SDC Govt. College Ludhiana, Mehar Chand Polytechnic Jalandhar and Govt. Polytechnic College Bathinda from this new session to be started in July. All the Vice Chancellors assured Badal that they would soon chalk out all the modalities in accordance with the Higher Education Department to make Community College System flexible so that the interested students could be further adjusted in regular degree courses as per their abilities after the completion of diploma training courses. Prominent amongst those who were present in the meeting included Education Minister Sikandar Singh Malooka, Advisor to the CM on National Affairs & Media Mr. Harcharn Bains, Principal Secretary to CM SK Sandhu, Principal Secretary Education Ravneet Kaur, Special Principal Secretary to CM Gurkirat Kirpal Singh, Special Secretary Higher Education Chander Gaind, DPI Colleges Tarsem Dhaliwal and Dy. Dir. Higher Education Jagdeep Singh.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:14:10 +0000
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