Nawanshahr: Punjab School and Higher Education Minister Pargat Singh on Monday said that the recruitment process of filling 1100 vacant posts of teachers in Punjab colleges would be completed by November 26 this year.
Recruitment of teachers has been done after a record of three decades in the state as the previous government didn’t give much importance to uplift the standard of education in Punjab, Minister and Padma Shri Pargat Singh said here while inaugurating Dilbagh Singh Government College Jadla in Nawanshahr, which was constructed at Rs 12 crore.
Praising the efforts of Dilbagh Singh, Minister said that due to his visionary thinking, he had laid the foundation for the development of Nawanshahr (now Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar) by making it a district.
Now, his grandson SBS Nagar MLA Angad Singh is taking forward the district and the people of this constituency were lucky to have the heir to Dilbagh Singh’s legacy as their leader, The Minister added.
He further said that during his 35 days tenure as minister, his goal was to upgrade the school and college education as well as sports infrastructure so that the young generation of Punjab could match the ever-changing challenges in the world.
He said that the problems of Punjab were not created overnight but due to sheer neglection by successive governments for the last 25-30 years.
“Now we all have to work together to resolve these problems. For instance, Punjab is reeling under gigantic debt and we have to work hard industriously to combat this so that our young generation will get ample employment opportunities in the state,” he said while addressing the gathering.