KARHALI (PATIALA): The SGPC president Gurcharan Singh Tohra on June 5 said that the Punjab Government was discriminating against the rural areas in the provision of basic amenities is it wanted to keep the states farming community socially culturally and economically backward.
Speaking at an Akal Academy function here he said that as part of a well-planned conspiracy the government was not making ads equate arrangements to provide quality education in the rural areas. Alleging step-motherly treatment to educated rural youth Tohra said the government had devised several ways to deny admissions to them in professional colleges He said that entrances tests being held by the government in these institutions were detrimental to the admission of rural youths to professional colleges
For the past several years thousands of posts of teacher had not been filled in schools to deny proper education to rural students. When the government had not filled the posts and was not providing equal opportunity to rural students to avail education it had no right to hold entrance tests He demanded that seats for rural students should be reserved in professional courses.
Tohra said the SGPC was making a serious effort to provide quality to rural youths by opening academics. He said for this purpose a Sikh educational commission had been constituted by the SGPC with Br Amrik Singh Dr H.K. Manmohan Singh. Dr Khem Singh Gill all former Vice-Chancellors Pirthi Pal Singh Kapoor a former Pro VC Principal Satbir Singh and Principal Bharbhur Singh had been as members. He said that the meeting of the commission would be held at Chandigarh to discuss the steps to be taken for improving the agar standards of educational institutions working under the SGPC.
Article extracted from this publication >> June 10, 1994
