Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, June 22
The Society for Promotion of Quality Education for Poor and Meritorious School will conduct counselling of applicants for Senior Secondary Residential Schools for Meritorious Students on June 24.
Earlier, the society had announced the counselling on June 22 but due to extension of date for registration the date for counselling also changed. It will now be continued from June 24 to 28 at Shaheed Sukhdev Thapar Government Senior Secondary Girls School, Bharat Nagar, for the students from the district. There are a total of 5,106 students who got themselves registered seeking admission to six meritorious schools situated at Ludhiana, Patiala, Mohali, Amritsar, Jalandhar and Bathinda.
A total of 3,743 girl students have been applied for 2,100 reserved seats. As many as 1,363 boys have applied for 1,050 reserved seats. The Society for Promotion of Quality Education for Poor Students has uploaded a separate merit list on the website of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Punjab.
The date, time and venue of counselling have been mentioned in the lists of students.
Anoop Passi, principal, Senior Secondary Residential School for Meritorious Students, Ludhiana, said, “SMSes have been sent to all the applicants about the time and venue of counselling to avoid their inconvenience. All the arrangements have been done to accommodate the students.”
