Three New Meritorious Schools At Sangrur, Ferozepur And Gurdaspur To Start In New Academic Year

Chandigarh, February 1, 2016: To take forward progressive agenda of imparting free and quality education to the poor but meritorious students the Punjab government is all set to start academics in three new Residential schools for meritorious students at Sangrur, Ferozepur and Gurdaspur. It was disclosed by Dr.Daljit Singh Cheema, Education Minister, Punjab.

Dr. Cheema said that 7 meritorious schools have already imparting education to the 4850 students of the state. These existing meritorious schools have been built in the recent past with the cost of Rs. 258.17 crore. With the commencement of three new such schools the Punjab state would become the first state of the country which has been successfully running meritorious schools to impart free education to the poor and brilliant students. The facilities extended to brilliant students in this schools included free hostel, food and special coaching for the competitive examination.

The Minister further said that this ambitious project was envisaged by Mr. Parkash Singh Badal, Chief Minister, Punjab and from the academic session 2014-15 six Resdential senior secondary meritorious schools started education at Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Patiala, Bathinda and SAS Nagar (Mohali). In each of the school student strength were fixed 600 students of 11th and 12th standard students for Medical, Non Medical and Commerce streams.  The 7th meritorious school was set up at Talwara (Hoshiarpur) from the academic session 2015-16 for only Arts stream.

It is pertinent to mention only those students studying in government schools are eligible to get admission in these meritorious schools who attains 80 percent and more than 80 percent marks in 10th standard.