The Punjab Cabinet led by Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Tuesday gave the approval to upgrade 229 schools to different levels viz. 46 elementary to middle schools, 100 middle to high schools and 83 high to senior secondary schools.
The move is aimed to obviate the students from the hardships of travelling long distances to continue their further studies that causes them inconvenience and even leads to them dropping out of the schools. Besides, this decision, taken in the public interest, would also bring administrative efficiency.
Notably, the government has been receiving numerous requests from various Gram Panchayats and Councillors of Municipal Town to redress this issue.
In another announcement by the Punjab Cabinet, to provide constructed houses to the Economically Weaker Section of the society across the state, it also approved invitation of applications for allotment of 25,000 EWS houses to be constructed by various Urban Development Authorities.
The applications for these houses along with necessary documents would be invited from the eligible applicants as per approved policy. The dwelling units would have carpet area of approx 30 sq. metres. This pro-poor scheme would be instrumental in benefitting nearly 25000 EWS families of the state, who do not own a dwelling unit will get ownership of the same for healthy and safer lifestyle.
A decision to this effect was taken during a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Channi here at Punjab Bhawan this evening.According to a spokesperson of the Chief Minister’s Office, at present 397.048 acre land is available for EWS housing in all the development authorities viz. GMADA (233.588 acre), GLADA (73.29 acre), PDA (16.52 acre), BDA (13.48 acre), JDA (11.25 acre) and ADA (48.92 acre). M/S WAPCOS Ltd., a Public Sector Undertaking of GoI has been recently engaged through open selection process as Project Management Consultants (PMC) for this project for end to end execution of the project with basic steps.
