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Punjab to spent Rs 100 cr on government colleges, ITI infrastructure

The cash strapped Punjab government will spend Rs 100 Crore on government colleges and Industrial Training Institute (ITI) infrastructure. This…

Punjab to spent Rs 100 cr on government colleges, ITI infrastructure

Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh (C) (Photo: SNS)

The cash strapped Punjab government will spend Rs 100 Crore on government colleges and Industrial Training Institute (ITI) infrastructure. This was revealed on Monday by the state Technical Education minister, Charanjit Singh Channi while he handed over appointment letters to lecturers. On the occasion, choice of stations were also allotted to the lecturers as per their convenience.

The minister gave a one to one personal hearing to all the newly appointed lecturers before finalising their posting orders. The minister said that everyone was personally heard as he has tried to adjust all the newly selected lecturers as per their choice in a transparent manner. “Official posting orders of the newly selected lecturers would be issued within a day or two,” Channi said.

The minister said that total 64 lecturers have been recruited in the government polytechnic colleges which includes 33 Computer Science lecturers, 12 Physics, eight English, five Medical Lab Technology, five Math, one Library Science and besides this five librarians have also been recruited.

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Channi said various vacant posts in the Technical Education Department would also be filled soon. He further said that the Technical Education Department had taken concrete steps to provide quality education including installation of video cameras in the examination centres and implementing bio-metric attendance system in all technical education institutes across the state.

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