Our mission is to improve school education in rural areas: Punjab Congress

Mohali, January 24

“To strengthen the education system at the school level and to expand the reach of education in rural areas, we have focused on improving school education in villages. Keeping this in view, five schools were upgraded in the Mohali constituency,” said sitting MLA and Congress candidate Balbir Singh Sidhu during his election campaign today.

We did our best to improve the rural schooling system and intend to bring more improvement in rural education if voted to power again. — Balbir Singh Sidhu, MLA and Congress candidate

Sidhu said over the years, improving infrastructure at government schools in rural areas had remained his top priority. It was their agenda to make initial schooling available to each and every child in rural area, he added.

He said Government Primary School at Nagaari was upgraded to middle school, Government Middle Schools at Balloo Majra and Siau were upgraded to high schools, and high schools at Landran and Saneta were upgraded to the senior secondary level. “We did our best to improve the rural schooling system and intend to bring more improvement in rural education if voted to power again,” asserted Sidhu.

Addressing election meetings at Manakmajra, Bhago Majra, Baironpur, Maujpur, Raipur Kalan, Shampur, Saneta, Dhirpur, Dhelpur, Gudana, Gige Majra and Nagari, the Congress candidate urged the villagers not to fall for fake claims of Kulwant Singh and Parvinder Singh Sohana, the AAP and Akali candidates, respectively.

Sidhu said Kulwant had no achievements of his own which he could count or share. The previous SAD-BJP government, in which both Kulwant and Parminder enjoyed power, had pushed Punjab towards destruction. But the present Congress government has put the state on the path of prosperity, he added.