The ‘School of Eminence’ has smart classrooms, modern infrastructure and laboratories, and playgrounds with facilities for various sports (file photo)
This will be the first ‘School of Eminence’ in Punjab and will play a key role in providing quality education to children of the state, an official statement said
Arvind Kejriwal, national president of Aam Aadmi Party, inaugurated a ‘School of Eminence’ at Amritsar in Punjab on Wednesday. Kejriwal, who is also the Chief Minister of Delhi, was accompanied by his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann.
This will be the first ‘School of Eminence’ in Punjab and will play a key role in providing quality education to the children of the state, an official statement said. More such schools will be opened in the state soon.
Punjab Education Minister Harjot Singh Bains said the schools will be a harbinger of a bright future for the students.
He said the AAP had promised the people of Punjab that government schools would not be less than private schools.
“We had given an assurance that government schools would be the best. These ‘Schools of Eminence’ will revolutionize education,” said Bains.
The ‘School of Eminence’ has smart classrooms, modern infrastructure and laboratories, and playgrounds with facilities for various sports, the statement said.
The AAP government plans to have 116 such schools in Punjab and develop them as centers of excellence for the students of classes 9 to 12.
Kejriwal, who is on a three-day visit to Punjab, will address a public meeting in Amritsar later in the day along with Mann.
Kejriwal and Mann will also hold meetings with entrepreneurs in Amritsar and Jalandhar on Thursday during which issues faced by them, including policy-related matters, will be discussed.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – PTI)
