New Delhi: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann accompanied by his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal on Monday announced that Punjab would soon modernize the entire school education and health sector on the pattern of Delhi model as promised by the AAP to the people as another guarantee during run up to the assembly polls in the state.
Interacting with the media persons on the sidelines of his maiden visit to the state-of-the-art Dr. BR Ambedkar School of Specialized Excellence here at Kalka ji, Bhagwant Mann said that it was all the more important to revamp the existing infrastructure in the core sectors of school education and health as these directly contribute towards the human resource development.
He said that he was astonished to look at such gigantic infrastructure in this Delhi government school as he had not seen schools of this level earlier in the country except in Canada and United States of America.
Sharing his first hand impression about this reputed government school, Bhagwant Mann said, “It is really a mind blowing experience to see this prestigious school equipped with world class infrastructure and highly qualified staff to steer the career of young minds through innovative teaching practices”. Highly impressed to see a classroom with paperless teaching where all the students were taking lessons on their laptops. Likewise, he also witnessed another classroom where all the students were engrossed in their studies while some expert was delivering an online lecture to them. Bhagwant Mann said these ultra modern teaching gadgets with advanced skills would also be replicated in the Punjab schools to provide quality education to the students in digital mode.
Showing deep concern over the trend of students going abroad for higher studies from Punjab, Bhagwant Mann said that he was confident that with the setting of such schools across the state this tendency amongst our youth would be considerably checked.
Bhagwant Mann during his visit to Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital at Dilshad Garden have a round of Critical Care Unit (CCU) besides interacted with the doctors after the detailed presentation. Both Chief Ministers inaugurated the emergency services wing of the hospital.