Chandigarh, April 26: The Punjab School Education Departmenthas released grants for strengthening the infrastructure of Vocational Labs toimprove vocational education.
Disclosing this here today a spokesperson of the schooleducation department said that the education minister, Mr. Vijay Inder Singlahas emphasized to convert vocational / NSQF Labs into Smart Labs to improve thestandard of vocational education. At present 955 NSQF Labs and 450 statevocational labs are running in the schools across the state. The department hasformulated a strategy to digitally strengthen these labs and convert them intosmart labs. For this Rs. 66,500 for non-IT trade lab and Rs. 11000 for IT tradelab has already been released. Now the department has arranged Rs. 8500 per labto make these labs more attractive.
According to the spokesperson, this amount has to be usedfor paint/Bala work/flex, door mat, window curtain/ door curtain, maintenanceof furniture, installation of white/green boards, exhaust fans, syllabushandlers, clock, newspapers reading stand etc. Directions have been also issuedto write down all the precautions and paste the chart inside the labs.