Punjab govt schools go all out for Mega PTM Inspire 2.0

In order to ensure its sucess, the education department of the state had also sent CM Bhagwant Mann’s pre-recorded audio, video and text messages to parents to motivate them to attend the PTM. The department said that nearly 10 lakh parents, across more than 19,000 schools, became a part of the event on Saturday that was held at all primary, middle, high and senior secondary schools.

Saturday’s PTM, dubbed Inspire 2.0, was organised to encourage a dialogue between teachers and parents about the progress of children. (Express Photo)

Amarjit Singh Chahal, a teacher from a village in Mansa, said that they had set up a ‘reading corner’ in the school to show parents how they can put in place similar set ups in their homes, with readily available resources, to inculcate reading habits among children.

Schools on Saturday also made parents sign a pledge that read: ‘I will send my child to school everyday’.

This time the schools had gone all out to publicise their initiative, with huge advertisements being put out a day before the event. (Express Photo)

Welcome sign boards, showering of petals and inspirational messages to encourage parents from rural and underprivileged backgrounds to become a participant in their children’s progress were also put up in school campuses across the state.

Though Saturday was not the first time that a PTM was held in government schools, the government of Punjab has this time around gone all out to publicise their initiative, with huge advertisements being put out a day before the event.

On Saturday, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann along with Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and Punjab education minister Harjot Bains visited a school in Patiala and interacted with students and their parents.

Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann along with Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and Punjab education minister Harjot Bains visited a school in Patiala and interacted with students and their parents. (Express Photo)

Mann said that the government schools of Punjab will produce leaders in every sphere who take the country to its zenith.

Addressing a gathering at Government Senior Secondary School, Model Town in Patiala, Mann said that government schools were imparting quality education to students, thereby enabling them to excel in every field. He said that students getting education from here will be leaders of the country in the coming times and the day was not far when these students will bring laurels for the state and country by their hard work and success.

He further said that the students were blessed with enormous capabilities and the government was making concerted efforts to channelise their unbounded energy and make them partners in social-economic growth of the country.

A ‘reading corner’ had been set up in the school to show parents how they can put in place similar set ups in their homes. (Express Photo)

Mann said that these government schools speak a lot about the success stories of Punjab. He said that the students studying in these schools have a dream to excel and become bureaucrats, technocrats, doctors, engineers and others and the state was committed to provide wings to their dreams.

Schools on Saturday also made parents sign a pledge that read: ‘I will send my child to school everyday’. (Express Photo)

Commenting on the state’s industrial growth, Mann said that his government was already roping in a number of tycoons to set up their units in the state and the day was not far when students run the big industrial units being be set up in Punjab.

He added that earlier the industries used to sign MoUs with families in power but ever since he assumed charge of government, the agreements are being signed for the benefit of the state.

Meanwhile, Sisodia, who accompanied Mann to Patiala, said that he was here to learn something fnew from the schools of Punjab. “We are not here today to implement something new but to learn something from Punjab which we can implement in Delhi,” Sisodia said.