
Within the Dharamkot sub-division of Punjab’s Moga district, native Aam Aadmi Social gathering (AAP) MLA Devinderjeet Singh Laddi Dhos inaugurated not one or two however 5 plaques in a single college, Wednesday.
The plaques, with names of CM Bhagwant Mann and training minister Harjot Singh Bains, had particulars of the infrastructure improve carried out on the college underneath the Punjab authorities’s ‘Sikhya Kranti’ drive which started on Monday.
Nonetheless, the Authorities Senior Secondary Faculty, Jalalabad East in Dharamkot doesn’t have a daily principal for greater than two years, and never a single lecturer for sophistication 11 and 12. All 4 posts for lecturers are mendacity vacant. Whereas the college doesn’t provide science and commerce streams for sophistication 11 and 12, all 4 posts of lecturers for arts which it presents are additionally mendacity vacant.
Kamaljit Kaur, the maths instructor who holds extra cost of the incharge on the Jalalabad college, stated that they put in 5 plaques for inaugurations as per orders of the training division, one every for 3 lecture rooms, a lab and a boundary wall.
Nonetheless, it has been two years now that the college doesn’t have a daily principal, and grasp cadre academics (who educate courses 6 to 10) are actually instructing class 11 and 12 as all 4 posts of lecturers are mendacity vacant. The college solely presents humanities stream however all 4 posts of English, Punjabi, political science and historical past lecturers are mendacity vacant.
“We now have raised our demand to have lecturers with the training division however the posts are but to be crammed. So, the grasp cadre academics are filling-in for lecturers as of now,” stated Kaur. The college has over 400 college students, together with almost 80 college students at school 11 and 12.
Contacted, native AAP MLA Dhos stated that the shortage of principals and academics was a difficulty in many colleges in his constituency, and he has introduced it to the discover of the training minister. “The earlier governments did nothing to enhance the situation of presidency faculties. The AAP authorities is making finest efforts to fill that hole. The minister has promised that the posts in faculties will likely be crammed quickly,” Dhos stated.
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Not too long ago, in the course of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha funds session, Dhos whereas highlighting the problem of lack of docs and well being amenities in his constituency, had stated that “it looks like residing in Pakistan.”
One other AAP MLA, requesting anonymity, stated that whereas the federal government’s transfer to carry a drive for inaugurating college infrastructure was a superb transfer, the choice to get separate plaques put in for routine initiatives corresponding to “repaired bogs, boundary partitions and many others” ought to have been prevented.
“On the bottom, it is a humiliation for us to unveil plaques which learn {that a} rest room was repaired and a boundary wall was refurbished. These are minor, routine works which didn’t require this ribbon reducing and plaque unveiling. It ought to have been achieved just for new and main initiatives,” stated the MLA.
Bathroom restore plaque faces backlash
In Barnala district on Wednesday, AAP’s Bhadaur MLA Labh Singh Ugoke inaugurated a plaque for a repaired rest room at authorities senior secondary college, Ghunam, and the photograph of it went viral on social media.
The plaque reads that the bogs had been repaired and devoted to the college underneath the steerage of CM Bhagwant Mann, training minister Harjot Bains and MLA Ugoke.
Academics and Opposition leaders questioned if this was the “Sikhya Kranti” being showcased by the AAP authorities.
Senior SAD chief Bikram Singh Majithia, posting a photograph of the plaque, wrote: “Is the renovation of bogs an academic revolution? Punjabis will at all times bear in mind this training revolution in future.”
“There’s a restrict to shamelessness BhagwantMann,” wrote former deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal.
“This occasion referred to as AAP had promised an finish to VIP tradition and was in opposition to the observe of laying basis stones. However in the present day it’s laying stones for repairing bogs. Until in the present day in my political profession, I’ve not seen a celebration laying stones for repairing bogs. That is the badlaav that was all left for Punjabis to see,” wrote Simarjeet Singh Bains, a Congress chief and previously the chief of Lok Insaaf Social gathering.
“Presenting the routine restore works as an training mannequin is what the AAP is all about. That is their Basis Stone Kranti,” wrote Congress chief Pargat Singh.
“Have you ever ever seen such badlaav and improvement prior to now 70 years? The college training has been diminished to a joke,” posted academics physique Democratic Academics Entrance (DTF).
Training minister inaugurates initiatives in border districts
Punjab training minister Harjot Singh Bains Wednesday inaugurated improvement initiatives value Rs 4.25 crore within the border districts of Amritsar and Tarn Taran underneath the “Sikhya Kranti” initiative.
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Bains inaugurated works value Rs 32.02 lakh, together with seven renovated lecture rooms and a rest room block value Rs 23.38 lakh at Authorities Senior Secondary Faculty (Women), Tapiala, and a brand new classroom and bathroom block value Rs 8.64 lakh at Authorities Major Faculty, Tapiala within the Rajasansi meeting constituency. Moreover, he opened three lecture rooms, constructed with the price of Rs 48.7 lakh, at Authorities Senior Secondary Faculty, Jheeta Kalan, and a boundary wall with a rest room block established with the price of Rs 8.14 lakh at Authorities Elementary Faculty, Jheeta Kalan underneath the Attari meeting constituency.
He additionally introduced a grant of Rs 29.32 lakh for the development of two lecture rooms, a basketball court docket, and a rest room block at Authorities Senior Secondary Faculty (Women), Mahan Singh Gate, within the Amritsar East meeting constituency.
Bains additionally visited faculties close to the worldwide border in Khemkaran (Tarn Taran), inaugurating Rs 3.07 crore value of infrastructure initiatives, together with sensible lecture rooms, science labs, and boundary partitions.