Under thevisionary leaderdship of the Chief Minister, Capt.Amarinder Singh, Punjab hasbeen witnessing a renaissance era in education. The state of the artinfrastructural facilities, innovative activity based teaching techniques,coaching facility for various competitive entrance examinations and digitaleducation have been bringing in positive change in the public mind set,consequently a record increase in enrollment as well as shifting of studentsfrom private to government schools is being witnessed.
As far asdistrict Patiala is concerned, as many as 94 primary schools and 29 upperprimary schools in Patiala district have witnessed more than 25 % increase inenrollment during the current academic session. As many as 16166 private schoolstudents have opted government schools to have an access to betterinfrastructural and quality education facilities being made available by theEducation department in government schools.
Divulgingdetails, District Education Officer( Primary), Er. Amarjit Singh, informed thatas many as 8120 students from private schools had shifted to as many as 940government primary schools in the district. Similarly, DEO(Secondary) HarinderKaur said that as many as 8046 students from private schools had got themselvesadmitted in 375 upper primary schools in the district.
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Thestrength of Govt. Primary School, Victoria has risen from 28 to 102. TheGovernment Sr. Sec. school, Feelkhana and Govt. Model Sr. Sec. School, CivilLines, Govt. Multipurpose Sr. sec. school, Passi Road have witnessed 53 %, 30 % and 39 % increase in enrollment respectivelyduring the current academic session, they added.