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Chandigarh, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said on Friday that the state government is adopting “out-of-the-box ideas” to strengthen the education sector, which he described as an important to eradicate poverty and social diseases.
Addressing a gathering after failing the students approved the NEET exam, Mann said that the revolutionary steps taken by the state government had changed a paradigm in the education sector in the last three years.
Mann said, “This is the Red Patra Day as 509 students from government schools have cracked the national eligibility-cum-entry test for admission to medical colleges,” according to an official statement.
He said that the fight against education, healthcare, infrastructure, industry, sports, employment and drugs is the top priorities of the government.
He said that no freebi or concession card can eliminate poverty or other social malformations in the state, instead it is an education that keeps the key that can bring people out of this vicious cycle and remove its standard of living, he said.
The Chief Minister said that his government is making tireless efforts to improve the standard of education to empower the common people.
He said that for the first time in the state, a mass campaign has been launched as “Yudh Nashesian Virudh”, under which drug criminals are being arrested and action is being intensified.
Mann said that after assuming the charge of the post, his government is “trying to clean the dirt created by its predecessors in the last 70 years”.
He said, “Some of our youths were oversees for government jobs due to lack of an outlook of previous governments,” he said that now under the A government, 54,000 youth have got full jobs on the basis of merit in the last three years.
Mann said that in a “good omen” for the state, “reverse migration is being seen in Punjab as youth are leaving foreign land to join government jobs in the state.” This is because the recruitment process is completely transparent.
Due to the efforts of his government, the confidence of the youth in working for the state government has increased, reducing the idea of going abroad, he said.
However, the Chief Minister said that “a lot of brain drain due to the indifferent approach of the previous regime, due to which a large number of youth had migrated from the state first”.
Mann said that since the A government has adopted a syllabus reform, a large number of students are becoming an integral part of the socio-economic development of the state by joining government jobs.
He said that concrete efforts to empower women in the state government have excelled in all areas today and are also beating boys.
Maan further stated that her government has appointed seven women officers as deputy commissioners and eight women have been appointed as Senior Superintendent of Police.
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