Punjab govt schools not to charge admission, tuition fee for 2021-21 academic session – education

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday introduced that authorities schools within the state will not charge any admission, re-admission and tuition fee from college students for the 2021-21 academic session on account of COVID disaster.

So far as the fee charged by non-public schools was involved, the state authorities had already moved the court docket, however for authorities schools, no fee can be charged in any respect for the complete yr, the Chief Minister mentioned.

The Chief Minister additionally introduced provisional admission in Class XI for the 31,000 Class X college students within the open faculty system, who may not be promoted amid the COVID disaster primarily based on inside evaluation, as no such evaluation exists for them. To make sure that their future is not adversely affected, the state authorities has determined to enable them provisional admission in Class XI, however they are going to be required to take examinations as soon as issues normalise, he mentioned.

The Chief Minister made these bulletins in the course of the version of #AskCaptain yesterday. He additionally introduced a money prize of Rs 5,100 every to 335 college students who’ve scored over 98 per cent in Class XII.

Responding to a plea of assist from Manpreet Singh, a small shopkeeper of Khamanu, Fatehgarh Sahib, whose daughter’s title had been struck off the rolls due to non-fee of annual prices by a faculty, the Chief Minister mentioned he would ask the DC to instantly intervene and make sure that the kid is taken again into the varsity.

“No faculty can take away college students like this,” he assured, including that strict penalties can be imposed, if wanted, on any faculty indulging in such acts.