Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated a “School of Eminence” in Punjab’s Amritsar on Wednesday and said this marked the beginning of an “education revolution” in the state. Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal was joined by his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann at the ceremony. “The school which we have inaugurated today is not an ordinary school. I can say with challenge that any big private school will not have the facilities which are there in this school,” said Kejriwal while addressing a public rally here after the inauguration event.
He said there are 20,000 government schools in the state and each one of them will see improvement under the AAP regime in terms of better infrastructure and other facilities. “Earlier, government schools had a shortage of benches, children sitting on mats, broken walls, leaking roofs, unclean toilets, no boundary walls, and no security guards. But all this is going to change now,” the AAP supremo, who is on a three-day visit to Punjab, said.
An amount of nearly Rs 1,600 crore has been given by the state government for the purchase of benches, building boundary balls where there are none, having 10,000 new classrooms and other infrastructural purposes in government schools.
