Punjab to introduce English from Class I: Capt Amarinder
Friday, 05/05/2017
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Chandigarh : To make students of Punjab compete at the national level, the Punjab government is in a process to moot new education policy under which, English will be introduced from Class I along with other subjects in government schools while foreign languages will be made optional for Class X students, said Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh.
The Chief Minister made the disclosure while interacting with the general public at the launch of a private news channel in Punjab, Haryana and Himachal, in a city-based hotel, on Thursday evening.
Capt Amarinder said, “Since our students of rural schools face difficulties in competing with students of urban schools. So, it is quite necessary that they should be taught English from Class I. To compete internally our students must know foreign languages. I will recommend Chinese, French, Italian as well as some other languages should be made option subjects for Class X students in the new education policy.”
Batting of Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, Captain said that time had come for generation change in the party. “If Rahul gets an opportunity to lead the party and the nation. He will be a good Prime Minister,” claimed Capt Amarinder, adding that Rahul a number of qualities as he is open to discussions, he takes decision and stands by them.
“It is the time to train the young legislators and prepare them for the future,” said Capt Amarinder Singh.
On three years of Modi government and on cooperation from the Union government, Amarinder Singh claimed to have never have had any problem with the Union government may it be of Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA or the Narendra Modi government.
He rather thanked Modi for waiving the loans of farmers, the issue he claimed to have taken up with the Prime Minister soon after taking over as CM of Punjab.
Expressing his concern towards the youth, the CM said that over 90 lakh youth was unemployed in the state and to provide job avenues to them is the top priority of his government.
The CM also accused the SAD-BJP government for handing over to him a debt-ridden government. “We have no money to give salaries and for other developmental works. Recently, I met 22 industrialists in Mumbai and asked them to invest in Punjab. We are slowly bringing back the state on the track.”
Countering the BJP state president Vijay Sampla on curbing drugs in a month as promised by him, Captain Amarinder Singh said he never promised to curb drugs but had said that his government will break the backbone of the drug paddlers. He said, “You can’t change things overnight that have gone bad over 10 years.”
Senior Shiromani Akali Dal leader Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and Union minister as well as state BJP president Vijay Sampla and Aam Aadmi Party leader H S Phoolka assured full cooperation to Capt Amarinder Singh government for his policies for the welfare of the state and Punjabis, but cautioned him saying that they would play the role of a strong opposition if his policies were anti-Punjab.
Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh rubbished Niti Aayog’s plans to tax farmers, saying such a move would threaten the survival of the state’s farmers, who were already reeling under the burden of huge debts, forcing many of them to take the extreme step of committing suicide.
