Minister lays stone of govt senior secondary school in Sector 65, Mohali

Tribune News Service

Mohali, May 31

A government senior secondary school in Sector 65 here will be set up at a cost of Rs13 crore. The school will have an ultra-modern triple-storey building constructed in 85,900 sq ft area with ample open space.

Tript Rajinder Bajwa, Minister for Rural Development, who also holds the charge of the Higher Education Department, stated this after laying the foundation stone of the school today. Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla and Health and Family Welfare Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu were also present on the occasion.

Bajwa said the school would have 32 classrooms, two libraries and ample laboratories for students of science stream.

Replying to a media query on the consequences of meeting of certain MLAs with the party High Command in Delhi, Bajwa termed airing the differences in the media by some Congress leaders as “unfortunate” and added that “they ought to have approached the party High Command before going to the media.” He hoped for any early resolution of the issue.

Cabinet Minister Vijay Inder Singla credited the increase in enrolment in government schools to reforms in school infrastructure, coming up of 12,000 smart schools, commencement of pre-primary classes and performance-based transparent transfer policy introduced by the Education Department.

Refuting the probability of the construction process being limited to laying of foundation stone, Singla said: “Unlike the previous government’s practice of laying hasty foundation stones without working out proper project feasibility and fund allocation, we have made the provision of funds and tendering for the construction of the school has been done with the mandatory clause for the completion of the building in a year.”

Thanking both ministers for support in bringing up a school in one of the most densely populated areas of Mohali city, Balbir Singh Sidhu said the existing school catering to the area had a small building and could not handle the pressure of increasing student strength. A new spacious campus had been a demand of the people of the area, which was appropriately met today.

Sidhu said Mohali was being developed as a medical hub as the construction of a medical college had been put on the fast track, while the proposal of a new civil hospital for Mohali had been prepared and it would come up in Sector 66 soon. He said an urban primary health centre each in Sector 69 and 79 and a primary health centre at Seneta village would be completed in four to six months, while the community health centre being constructed in Phase-3B1 would also be completed by October.

Mayor Amarjit Singh Jiti, Deputy Mayor Kuljit Singh Bedi, Market Committee Chairman Harkesh Chand Sharma Machhlikalan, District President Youth Congress Committee Advocate Kanwarbir Singh Sidhu, councillors and officials of the Panchayati Raj and the Education Department were present.

To have 2 libraries, 32 classrooms

Tript Rajinder Bajwa, Minister for Rural Development, said the school would have 32 classrooms, two libraries and ample laboratories for students of science stream.