Punjab to cancel NOCs of schools not teaching Punjabi: Sekhwan

Updated on: Saturday, November 12, 2011

The Punjab government will close all those schools in the state that have not yet started teaching Punjabi language from class first and cancel the No-Objection Certificates issued to them for opening the institutions.

After launching the Right To Education (RTE) in the state, state Education and Language Minister Sewa Singh Sekhwan told mediapersons he had received complaints that some schools affiliated to CBSE, ICSE and Kendriya Vidyalayas in the state were not obeying the Punjab government order of teaching Punjabi to students.

Sekhwan said he has instructed his officers to issue notices to these schools and close them after rejecting the NOCs issued to them.

Punjabi language had been made a compulsory subject in schools of the state under the Punjab, Punjabi and Learning of Other Languages Act, 2008 but the schools have failed to follow the law.

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