Punjab CM to open Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur State University of Law today at Kairon

Our Correspondent

Tarn Taran, August 26

CM Amarinder Singh will inaugurate Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur State University of Law at Kairon, a Government College at Shahbazpur, and an Industrial Training Institute at Mannan, (Tarn Taran) virtually on Friday. Residents had been looking forward to it as it is going to be a ground breaking development in the field of higher education.

The district is known for rural campuses such as SGAD College, Khadoor Sahib, Baba Buddha College Bir Sahib (Thatha), SGGS Khalsa College Sirhali and GNDU College, Chungh. The urban campuses have been facing neglect. District’s only women’s College (aided) Mata Ganga Girls College, Tarn Taran, has been facing the threat of closure due to the lack of staff and grants-in-aid. The vast playground of the local SGAD Government College is facing the threat of encroachment.

Dr Amanpreet Singh Gill, an educationist, said higher education in the district suffered immensely during the militancy. Drug menace was another problem. Study visa exodus was the latest and the hardest blow to already weakened institutions of higher education in the area.