Punjab (The Stellar News) Saksham Kalia: Punjab Government on Thursday announced to provide free uniform to government school students. Punjab Education Minister Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer said that his department will distribute free uniforms to 15.49 lakh students of class 1 to 8 for the academic session 2022-2023. A grant of Rs 92.95 crore has been released by the education department he said in an official release.
Hayer said out of the total beneficiary students Rs 50.72 crore has been released for 8,45,429 girls, Rs 32.75 crore for 5,45,993 boys belonging to scheduled caste category and Rs 9.46 crore for 1,57,770 boys of BPL.
The free uniforms will be distributed by the school management committees (SMCs). The minister further said the SMCs will purchase uniforms at the rate of Rs 600 per student. The minister instructed education officials to not purchase uniforms from any particular shop.
