Education revolution has begun in Punjab, says Arvind Kejriwal after inaugurating ‘School of Eminence’

Amritsar, September 13

Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated a ‘School of Eminence’ in Punjab’s Amritsar on Wednesday and said an education revolution has begun in the state.

Kejriwal, who is also the chief minister of Delhi, was joined by his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann at the ceremony. This is the first ‘School of Eminence’ in Punjab, an official statement said.

“An education revolution has started in Punjab. The school which we have inaugurated today is not an ordinary school. I can say with challenge that any big private school will not have the facilities which are there in this school,” said Kejriwal while addressing a public rally here after the inauguration event.

There are 20,000 government schools in the state and each one of them will see improvement under the AAP regime in terms of better infrastructure and other facilities, the AAP supremo, who is on a three-day visit to Punjab, said.

“We had promised that it is our responsibility to give a good education to children. We had given a guarantee in this regard and we are fulfilling it,” he said.

Bains said the schools will be a harbinger of a bright future for the students. He said the AAP had promised to the people of Punjab that government schools would be no less than private ones.

The ‘School of Eminence’ has smart classrooms, modern infrastructure and labs, and playgrounds having facilities for various sports, Bains said.

The AAP government plans to have 116 such schools across Punjab and develop them as centres of excellence for the students of Classes 9 to 12.

Kejriwal said already one lakh students have filled out forms showing interest in admission to Schools of Eminence.

“Recently, a film Jawan has been released, it is a good film, you must watch it. You must have heard Shah Rukh Khan’s dialogue and he says they will come and seek vote before polls in the name of religion, caste but confront them and ask these parties what they will do for education, treatment facilities,” he said.

“I want to tell Shah Rukh Khan sahab that in the entire country, the AAP is the only party which works for good education and health facilities to people,” he said.

Training guns at the previous regimes in Punjab, he said, Captain Amarinder Singh of Congress and the Badals of SAD used to say that the government was in debt.

But when the AAP is doing so much work in the health and education sector and giving free power, these parties are left surprised and wonder where we are getting money for this development, he said, adding there is no dearth of funds, but previous regimes had looted Punjab.

Kejriwal also reiterated his opposition to the ‘One Nation, One Election’ campaign of the BJP-led government at the Centre.