The Punjab government will start reviewing functioning of all departments regularly with Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal evaluating at the end of month. Badal said that after two and a half years, it was time to “take stock and accelerate projects”.
On the issue of education system, Badal said all government schools in the state would have adequate staff, infrastructure and basic facilities and 11,530 teachers appointed in three months.He said this would be in addition to 17,417 teachers already recruited bringing total number of teachers to 28,947, a record.The Chief Minister further added that 69 primary schools had been opened spending Rs 4.14 crore. Also Rs 53 crore had been spent to upgrade 589 primary schools to middle level. Apart from this, Rs 27 crore and Rs 19 crore had been spent to build classrooms in 1068 primary schools and 764 middle schools.
Badal said all 18,408 schools would have toilets and drinking water in this year and 351 Senior Secondary Schools had been given better infrastructure and science facility. He also added that 20 Adarsh Schools were being set up to provide free education to poor and brilliant students in the first phase and the project was being monitored at his level.
On priorities of higher education, Badal said the classes had been started at Central University, Bathinda and it would have Bio-sciences, Environmental science and Technology, Comparative Literature and South Central Asian Studies courses by next month in the temporary building.
He stated that the Vice-Chancellor had been appointed and land been acquired for the university. Posts of the faculty members and other staff had been advertised.
On World Class University at Amritsar on 700 acres Badal said the Site Selection Committee headed by the Chairman, UGC, would visit Amritsar on September 26 to select site. The IIT classes at Ropar had been started in Polytechnic college there. Meanwhile, the government has transferred 501 acres to the IIT for the building.
He said 13 degree colleges would be set up by spending Rs 104 crore and 21 model schools in educationally backward blocks of the state. | 
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