Punjab allots 15 Adarsh school sites to private partners

Updated on: Friday, September 18, 2009

Chandigarh: The Punjab government would set up 108 Adarsh Schools under Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode to impart free and quality education to the brilliant and economically poor rural students in all the districts and has received two dozen proposals from different 11 private partners for the allotment of Adarsh School sites.

Upinderjit Kaur, Education Minister, Punjab, Said here today that Punjab Education Development Board (PEDB) has invited applications from interested private partners to set up Adarsh Schools in the State.

In response to this, 11 private partners has applied for allotment of Adarsh School sites and 15 sites had been finalised and approved to five private partners to setup these modern and fully equipped educational institutions in the state, she said.

The Minister said that these Adarsh schools would impart study from pre-nursery to 10+2 classes and will be equipped with the necessary infrastructure where no fee and funds etc, whatsoever, would be charged from the rural students. The department has already been running 9 Adarsh schools in the state.

Punjab allots 15 Adarsh school sites to private partners

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