Education Secretary visits Bet area to encourage admission drive

Our Correspondent

Garhshankar, April 18

The Education Secretary, Krishan Kumar, on Saturday visited villages of remote bet area falling in Hoshiarpur and Ropar districts to boost enrolment drive, currently underway in the state. Starting from Government Senior Secondary School, Garhshankar, Krishan Kumar also visited government schools situated at villages Mehandwani, Binewal, Gurubishanpuri, Haibowal, Seehwan, Khurali and Bhangal. He interacted with the school heads, staff and took stock of the progress of the extension, augmentation of infrastructural facilities and enhancement in enrolment, besides potentialities of starting pre-primary classes in high and senior secondary schools.

He also went door-to-door at some villages to make the people aware about the various infrastructural as well as quality education facilities to mobilise them to get their wards admitted in government schools. Having seen the Education Secretary on the enrolment drive at Binewal village, Sanjay Kumar, husband of Amandeep, sarpanch of village Pipliwal, stopped there and apprised him of the initiative taken by the village panchayat to register as many as 45 students for getting Government Primary School, Pipliwal, reopened.

“The school was closed due to deficient strength of students in 2017. The village panchayat made efforts to spruce up school building and enroll students to get it restarted in public interest. After registering as many as 45 students, a case for restarting the school was submitted with the department,” Sanjay told the Education Secretary.

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The Education Secretary exhorted school heads to keep a vigil on board exam preparation in their schools to accomplish ‘Mission Shat Pratishat’ while addressing the meeting of school heads, block nodal officers, DMs, BMs, DSM and Zila Shikhiya Sudhar team.