Punjab: Captain Amarinder Singh bats for educating international languages in state-run colleges

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh Thursday requested the state schooling division to think about educating international languages as an non-obligatory topic in authorities colleges to assist enhance the probabilities of college students’ employability. He requested officers to work out modalities to allow college students to be taught languages like Chinese, Arabic and French.
During an interplay with lecturers, CM mentioned, “Though Punjabi is our mother tongue and English is already being taught in schools, the additional knowledge of foreign languages would help our students to excel in their career.”
He shared that whereas travelling in Kapurthala district, he observed a signboard in a rural space displaying approach to a educating facility for the Italian language.“This incident reveals that our people, especially the youth, are keen to learn foreign languages to settle abroad and such an initiative of the school education department would help them realise their aspirations.”

Underlining the necessity to inspire college students to take up sports activities as a character-building train, Amarinder additionally directed School Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla to discover the opportunity of creating playgrounds in colleges.
He additionally congratulated lecturers and the workers of the varsity schooling division for making Punjab the primary state within the nation within the Performance Grading Index (PGI) 2019-20 launched by the Government of India. It is a matter of satisfaction that Punjab has achieved this uncommon feat, which is the end result of lecturers’ collective efforts, their onerous work, dedication and sincerity, he mentioned whereas lauding initiatives resembling on-line trainer switch coverage, good college coverage, pre-primary schooling, digital schooling and a particular cadre of lecturers working in border areas.

These measures have led to a exceptional enchancment within the high quality of schooling in Punjab, he mentioned, including, it is usually mirrored from the truth that almost 5.6 lakh college students have shifted from personal to authorities colleges with a 29 per cent enhance in enrolment over the last 4 years.
School Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla assured that the division would carefully work with the digital platforms providing the power of on-line programs in international languages to allow college students to be taught international languages of their alternative.