CM announces 50 colleges for state
Friday, 01/03/2019
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Punjab Chief Minster Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday laid the foundation stone of Degree College for Girls at the local Boota Mandi and announced that his Government would accomplish the target of establishing 50 Colleges in the next three years. The Chief Minister said that they had initiated the process for setting up 17 Colleges in just two years of his Government while the previous Government had made only 30 Colleges in its decade long regime. He said that the SAD-BJP Government has made an announcement in 2008 to establish a college here but there was no development in this regard and it was just a namesake announcement – not meant to be fulfilled.
Talking about the Degree College to be constructed at the Boota Mandi here, the Chief Minister said that it was a decade old demand of the area, which has first raised the issue in 1992. He said that this College would also be completed in one and half years at a cost of Rs 13 crores as the 3-acre land needed for it had been transferred by Mandi Board to Higher Education.
The Chief Minister said that education was the most powerful agent for bringing about reconstruction of the society on the principles of equality and social justice, and the spread of higher education was the panacea for most social troubles. He said that Boota Mandi was traditionally populated by socially and economically marginalized sections of the society, who were denied opportunities of higher education for a long time. The building will have an Administrative Block, Arts and Science Block, Zoology / Botany Lab, Multipurpose Hall for performing various cultural/ educational activities and lush green grounds for sports.
Captain Amarinder Singh reiterated that the Congress Government would open the new degree colleges in those Assembly Constituencies which did not currently have degree colleges – to impart quality education to all needy sections of Punjab. He said that Jalandhar would get two Colleges – one at Boota Mandi and another at Shahkot.
Member Parliament from Gurdaspur Sunil Jakhar said that as tension continues at the Border, we should pray for the welfare and well-being of the entire nation. Congratulating the Chief Minister for putting new milestones in the field of education, he said that these educational institutions were the biggest gifts to build a healthy and strong nation. He lashed out at the Centre for blatantly ignoring the interests of SC fraternity especially in the case of post-matric scholarships. He said that we should work together to realise the dreams of Dr BR Ambedkar by providing education to all. He also said that the people of country should take decisive decision in the coming time.
