Education Minister Dr Daljit Singh Cheema today said that the state government is committed for providing quality education to meritorious students studying in different parts of the state. He said that for this purpose, a school for meritorious students is already successfully running in the city.Dr Cheema was in city to attend the golden jubilee celebrations of a private school here today.He said that these schools focus on grooming students of these schools to crack competitive exams like IIT-JEE, AIPMT, CA, Company Secretary besides the premier Civil Services exams.
While speaking to media persons, Dr. Cheema said that students studying in these schools are the cream of intellects selected from all over the State and it was the duty of education department to ensure that they excel in their chosen academic fields. He said that education department has already organised specialised and inpidual coaching classes for meritorious students and hoped that with the collective efforts these students would bring laurels to the state by cracking premier competitive exams.Emphasizing the need for nurturing the talented grass root level he said that education department has already initiated a scheme to spot such talent at a younger age so as to groom them according to their potential.