Overview
- The AAP-led Punjab government, which unveiled a four-year education report card on Monday, said it lifted the budget 52% to ₹19,279 crore and will launch a ₹3,500 crore second phase with World Bank support.
- Officials pointed to Punjab topping the 2024 National Achievement Survey, a central test of student learning, and said government-school scores were 18% above the national average.
- Since April 2022, the state reports hiring 14,525 teachers and regularising 12,316 staff, and says 118 Schools of Eminence are planned with 60 now open.
- The report lists upgrades to classrooms, labs, libraries, sanitation and Wi‑Fi, training for educators in Singapore and Finland and at IIM Ahmedabad, free bus rides for girls, and a student business program that raised about ₹70 crore.
- Congress leaders disputed the picture, citing 6,423 teacher vacancies, more schools with fewer than 15 students, and hundreds of pending or incomplete projects, and arguing many gains trace to their 2017–2022 term.