Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh onSaturday urged Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to immediately approve theMemorandum of Agreement (MoA) for Sainik School, Dalla Gorian in Gurdaspurdistrict, and also sanction a third Sainik School at Bathinda.
In a letter to the Union Defence Minister,Captain Amarinder Singh said the State Government would sign the MoA for thethird Sainik School as soon as the approval of the Ministry is received.
The Chief Minister pointed out that the StateGovernment has already allotted 40 acres of land at Dalla Gorian (DistrictGurdaspur) to establish Punjab’s 2nd Sainik School and the Memorandum ofAgreement has also been signed and submitted to the Department of Ex-ServicemenWelfare in the Ministry of Defence. However, he said this shall not, in hisopinion, suffice to meet the aspirations of the Punjabi youth.
Emphasizing on the need for at least one Sainik School each in the Malwa,Doaba and Majha regions, the three natural geographical divisions of the State,he said it was felt that a third Sainik School in Bathinda will suitably caterto this requirement.
The Chief Minister noted that Sainik Schools areprestigious institutions which have consistently maintained the higheststandards in imparting education to children across the country. For manyyears, he said, these schools have groomed youth into responsible citizens andmany key positions in the Armed Forces are today manned by the alumni of theseschools.
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Sainik School, Kapurthala is at present the onlySainik School in Punjab, established way back in 1961. The youth of Punjab havealways displayed an exemplary zeal to join the Armed Forces and to serve thenation. There is, thus, an urgent need to establish additional Sainik schoolsin the State, stressed the Chief Minister.