Punjab Education Dept conducts special training on Scholarships & Awards given to school heads

• Punjab Education Dept conducts special training on Scholarships & Awards given to school head

Chandigarh, September 4, 2022: On the directions of Education Minister Harjot Singh Bains, a special training session was held for school heads to inform them about the submission of applications related to different scholarship schemes and awards through the portal.

The training was imparted through the Edusat system so that all the formalities for scholarships and awards could be followed accurately.

Assistant Director-cum-State Nodal Scholarship Officer Parminder Kaur while imparting the training briefed about all relevant formalities and procedures to be followed on the portal at the time of application.

Disclosing this, an official Spokesperson said that Punjab Government had taken a series of path-breaking initiatives in the education

department to further bring reforms in the facilities.

He said it was also focused in the training that concerned school heads and teachers should make a plan to ensure the benefits of scholarships to a maximum number of students across the state.

He said that there were various scholarship schemes based on the attendance of students, merits of students, and some of related with the results and their merit.

The spokesperson stated that school heads and principals should go through the instructions after clicking the scholarship link on the website of the Education Department and then follow the necessary directions in letter and spirit.

He said students should also make apprised of the schemes related with their parents. It was also informed in the training session that the entire record of the scholarship schemes should be maintained so that it could be easily ascertained in future when needed.