Punjab to open ‘Meritorious schools’ from Feb 9 with Covid-19 protocols in place

After reopening government schools in a phased manner, the Punjab Government on Saturday decided to make the residential “meritorious schools” situated at Amritsar, Bathinda, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Patiala, Mohali, Gurdaspur, Ferozepur, Sangrur and Talwara (Hoshiarpur) functional from February 9.

Punjab school education minister Vijay Inder Singla said that due to an unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic, the ‘meritorious schools’ were converted into Covid-19 care centres and hundreds of Covid-19 positive patients were quarantined there. The Punjab cabinet minister said that these residential schools were being run under the aegis of ‘Society For Promotion Of Quality Education For Poor and Meritorious Students of Punjab’ to provide free education facilities along with boarding and lodging exclusively to the students aspiring to crack competitive entrance examinations to seek admission in medical and engineering institutions.

Punjab to open ‘Meritorious schools‘ from Feb 9 with Covid-19 protocols in place

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