Punjab Politics News
Govt-aided schools cry for help - Seek recruitment as 50% of posts of teachers lying vacant for last 9 years
Tuesday, 03/07/2012
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120703/punjab.htm#2
The Right to Education (RTE) Act recommends a teacher-student ratio of 1:30. But, there is a government-aided school in Faridkot where the count is as high as 1: 160.
Tail-end villagers fight for canal water - Check pilferage themselves; accuse Irrigation dept of not acting against miscreants
Monday, 02/07/2012
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120702/punjab.htm#10
As the paddy sowing reaches its peak, farmers at the tail-end villages are fighting with farmers of villages located at the beginning of canals as they were not receiving an adequate supply of canal water to irrigate their fields.
Bypoll to be referendum on govt’s wrong policies: Capt
Sunday, 01/07/2012
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120701/punjab.htm#4
Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh today said the Dasuya byelection would act as a referendum on the "erroneous" policies of the SAD-BJP coalition government that was "leading the once-prosperous state into a debt trap".
Govt schools with less students to be merged
Friday, 29/06/2012
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120629/punjab.htm#10
Government schools having less than 10 students will soon be merged with nearby schools in order to ensure that all teachers are made to work. The Education Department will bear the transport charges in respect of students of the merged schools.
Bhikhiwind village in shock
Thursday,28/06/2012
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120628/punjab.htm#2
Locked house, deserted street and empty sweet boxes lying on the roadside, this sums up the scenario at Sarabjit's residence at Bhikhiwind village in Tarn Taran today, hours after Pakistan did a volte-face on commuting his death sentence.
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