Education is the pivot around which the prosperity of anysociety revolves. It seems the key point behind the ideology of the Punjab Chief Minister,Captain Amarinder Singh, who has not only promised to focus on the qualitativeimprovement in education in his poll manifesto in 2017 but has prepared aroadmap to give a concrete shape to his vision at the ground level. Under hisvisionary stewardship, the Punjab has emerged as pioneer state in the country,which has succeeded in bringing in revolutionary qualitative improvement inschool education during the past three years.
Fulfilling the pre-poll promise, the Punjab Govt. under" Captain Smart Connect" scheme is providing smart phones to all the+2 students studying in the government school, said the Cabinet Minister Aruna Chaudhary. She was addressing thegathering here today at Govt. Senior Secondary School , Kahma during the thirdphase of the distribution of smart phones where the district level function washeld under the state level virtual programme of distribution of smart phones. She lauded the announcement of the ChiefMinister that the 11th class students, who would get promoted to 12th classafter the annual examination, would also be provided smart phones in the nextacademic session. While the minister distributedsmart phones to as many as 15 students of three schools here adhering to theprecautions of COVID-19, as many as 875students belonging to 21 students havebeen distributed mobile phones at their respective schools. Satvir Singh PalliJhikki, Chairman, District Planning Committee, distributed Smart Phones atGSSS, Chak Bilga.
Nawanshahr MLA,Angad Singh said that it was a historic decision of the ChiefMinister, Captain Amarinder Singh to facilitate the students belonging to theunderprivileged section of the society to have access to the latest technologyto avail the benefits of digital education, the Punjab govt. has startedproviding Smart Phones equipped with pre-loaded applications related toE.content of the syllabus. He exhorted the students to make the judicious useof the Smart Phones to tap the educational and employment avenues for shapingtheir career in a better way. Besidesproviding Smart Phones, he had also got the abundant funds sanctioned for thestate of the art sports complex, extension of infrastructre facilities at localgovernment senior secondary school andsetting up of Govt. College in Nawanshahr constituency.
Deputy Commissioner, Dr. Shena Aggarwal, said on theoccasion that the total 3762 students studying in 12th class in the GovernmentSchools in the district had been provided Smart Phones.
SDM, Jagdish SinghJohal, Tehsildar, Kulwant Singh, District Education Officer(SE), Jagjit Singh,Deputy DEO(SE), Amrik Singh, Principal, Pawan Inder Kaur, Block Samiti Member,Sukhwinder Kaur, Sarpanch, Parminderjit Kaur, Parmod Bharti, spokesperson,Punjab Education Department, Nirmal Singh, District media coordinator, VinayKumar, member, Zila Sikhiya Sudhar team, Hitesh Sehgal, Satnam Singh, staff,students and parents were present on the occasuion.