Chandigarh, July 13 (IANS) Delivering a historic relief to over 32 lakh students and their families, the Punjab government has brought private school fees under a strict regulatory framework by promulgating the Punjab Regulation of Fees of Unaided Educational Institutions (Amendment) Ordinance, 2026. The ordinance caps annual fee hikes at five per cent, mandates refunds where fee increases have exceeded 15 per cent over the last three years, treats all charges, including transport and building f…
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Chandigarh, July 4 (IANS) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Saturday said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab has been playing politics on the sacrilege issue by instituting a fresh Special Investigation Team (SIT) in the 2015 Behbal Kalan firing case even though four chargesheets had already been submitted in the case. It asked the government why it was not proceeding against jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh despite having been indicted by an SIT in the inte…
Chandigarh, June 22 (IANS) The Punjab Cabinet, led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, on Monday approved an ordinance to regulate fee hikes by private unaided schools, amend industrial incentive guidelines, and strengthen digital governance. The Chief Minister’s Office said that to regularise unnecessary and unreasonable fee increases by private unaided schools, the Cabinet approved the Punjab Regulation of Fee of Unaided Educational Institutions (Amendment) Ordinance, 2026. It amends the Punjab…
Chandigarh, June 20 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab on Saturday staged protests across the state against the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), its president Sukhbir Singh Badal, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress over what it described as a coordinated campaign to defame Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann through a misleading fake video circulated on social media. AAP ministers, MLAs, senior leaders, workers and residents took to the streets across Punjab, accusing Opposition partie…
Chandigarh, June 18 (IANS) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Thursday announced a “Dharam Yudh Morcha” from Sri Akal Takht Sahib on July 19 to remove Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, who has been declared guilty of “committing heinous sacrilege”. SAD President Sukhbir Badal declared that the Dharam Yudh Morcha would be launched under the Chhattar Chhaya (overall spiritual patronage) of Sri Akal Takht Sahib.Badal told the media that what Bhagwant Mann had done against the Guru Sahiban and est…
Chandigarh, June 18 (IANS) An Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab delegation met Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav here regarding the fake video circulated with the intention of tarnishing the image of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and disturbing peace and communal harmony in the state. The delegation submitted two reports to the DGP and demanded legal action against those involved in creating, circulating and amplifying the fabricated video on social media.The delegation comprised AAP state…
Chandigarh, June 10 (IANS) The Punjab Cabinet, presided over by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, on Wednesday approved a series of key decisions aimed at providing major relief to students appearing in the re-conducted NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) examination, besides generating employment opportunities for the youth, strengthening public infrastructure, promoting sustainable waste management and clean energy.The decisions include free bus travel for NEET aspirants and one attendan…
Chandigarh, June 8 (IANS) In a first-of-its-kind move to improve urban sanitation, Punjab Local Government Minister Harjot Singh Bains on Monday launched ‘Mission Clean Punjab’, a technology-driven drive that will put all civic officials, from top to bottom, on the ground daily from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m.Unveiling ‘Mission Clean Punjab’ at the department’s headquarters here, Bains reviewed the drive’s first day through video calls with field officials.He said the initiative will be powered…
Chandigarh, June 3 (IANS) In a step aimed at ending arbitrary fee hikes by private schools, the Punjab government on Wednesday announced a regulatory framework that caps annual fee increases at five per cent, mandates refunds of excess fees collected from parents wherever schools breached the annual limit in the past three years and prescribed stringent penalties that can ultimately lead to cancellation of a school’s recognition. The proposed legislation that Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann decla…
Chandigarh, May 14 (IANS) Punjab’s government schools have scripted a major turnaround in public education, with 416 government schools recording a perfect 100 per cent pass result in the Punjab School Education Board Class 12 examinations, the government said on Thursday. As girls dominated the merit list and pass percentage once again, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann hailed the daughters of Punjab for spearheading the state’s educational resurgence after three students, Supneet Kaur from M…