New govt college to be reality soon

Nitin Jain
Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, June 12

A new government college will open in Ludhiana East next month, if all goes as per the official plan.

The Rs 14-crore higher education project was in the advanced stage of completion and the target date of its completion was July 31.

With this, the number of government colleges in the city will go up to three as two institutes — SCD Government College and the Government College for Girls — were already providing higher education here.

Third govt college in city

• With this, the number of government colleges in the city will rise to three as two institutes — SCD Government College and Government College for Girls — are already providing higher education here.
• The progress of the ongoing work on the project, which is 100% state-funded, was reviewed during the fourth meeting of the public investment management (PIM) committee on infrastructure development projects under implementation, chaired by Chief Secretary Vini Mahajan, recently.

The progress of the ongoing work on the project was reviewed during the fourth meeting of the public investment management (PIM) committee on infrastructure development projects under implementation in the state, chaired by the Chief Secretary, Vini Mahajan, recently.

The Chief Secretary directed the officials concerned to ensure quality control and completion of the project within the stipulated timeline.

However, the original timeline of the project was July 2019, which could not be met due to certain reasons and now, the likely date of completion was fixed as July 31.

The 100 per cent state-funded project was coming up at the cost of Rs 13.97 crore and was part of the higher education project to construct 10 new degree colleges in the state at the cost of Rs 100 crore in the current fiscal 2021-22.

The Public Works Department (PWD) was the executing agency of the project.

The other new government colleges in the state were coming up at Sidhpur, costing Rs 13.5 crore, Gidderbaha in Muktsar at Rs 12.49 crore, Bhawanigarh at Rs 12.25 crore, Malout at Rs 12.01 crore, Boota Mandi in Jalandhar at Rs 11.47 crore, Kartona Fatehgarh at Rs 10 crore and a sports college in Jalandhar at Rs 24.96 crore.

The new colleges in the state were targeted to be completed till September this year.

Education facilities

As far as education facilities were concerned, there were a total of 35 arts, science and commerce and home science colleges in the district where 1,258 teachers were providing higher education to 34,540 students.

Besides, there were 18 teachers’ training colleges with 38 teachers and 384 students, 15 technical art and craft schools and industrial polytechnic institutions with 212 teachers and 3,560 students, 361 senior secondary schools with 5,794 teachers and 1,36,111 students, 367 high schools with 3,652 teachers and 99,552 students, 322 middle schools with 1,974 teachers and 39,059 students and 1,129 primary and pre-primary schools with 4,044 teachers and 1,24,048 students in the district.

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