Punjab industry - Industrial Products

PunjabState Monitorfrom the grassroots to the higher levels ofeducation. A leading state in terms ofproviding infrastructure and facilities toprimary and upper primary schools basedon EDI (2009) by NUEPA, Punjab has the 6thposition as per all the India Education Index.Some of the significant features are:Strong school education networkwith 19,608 govt. schools and 1,518 privateschools with government schoolscontributing 92 per cent to school educationEducation through EDUSAT beingprovided to students of secondary schoolsAround Rs 780 crores are beingspent on primary school education underSarva Shiksha Abhiyan117 Adarsh Schools for providingquality education to rural studentsInfrastructure in 351 schools beingupgraded under NABARD project at Rs 141croresLaunch of the ICT programme acrossall state schools to improve computerliteracy under which computer educationhas been made compulsory from class VI5,939 computer labs set up in allupper primary schools with internetconnectivityApproval for 21 model schools ineducationally backward districts of the stateby MHRD119 schools are being set up underpublic private partnership mode.Establishment of Pushpa GujralScience City jointly by the Government ofIndia and Punjab to inculcate scientificaptitude in young students.Punjab also has a strong educationnetwork with 13 universitiesIn excess of 16,000 students enrolledin the state’s 75 postgraduate colleges anduniversitiesA strong higher education networkwith 55 government, 136 aided and 188private colleges.3 well established universitiesincluding the Guru Nanak Dev University3 New degree colleges ineducationally backward districtsGTT Pilot Project (Global Talent Track)being implemented.Live broadcast of lectures through theEdusat NetworkThe Chief Minister is convinced that hehas been able to push “Punjab into the nextgeninfrastructure development era. Majorinitiatives have been taken to revamp thenetwork of roads involving an investment ofover Rs 25,000 crores. Besides, the New Yearwill also witness the linking of everyimportant city in the state with four-six laneroads, besides the completion of 33 ROBsRUBs initiated at the cost of Rs 7,073 crores”.In terms of air connectivity, Punjab shouldsoon become one of the few Indian states tohave three international airports with the anew international civil air terminal at Mohaliand another Rs 17,000-crore GreenfieldInternational Airport planned near Ludhianaand another that is already there at SriAmritsar Sahib.With human resources having beenattended to, today the state talks of366 approved mega projectsincluding 133 manufacturing projectsProposed 31 new industrial clusters atLudhiana, Malerkotla, Moga, Jalandhar,Mandi Gobindgarh, Malout & MohaliFebruary 2011PURCHASE 161