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Give one
percent of earnings for education: Badal to Sikhs
Sunday November 14, 2010 08:01:42 PM,
IANS
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Chandigarh: Punjab
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Sunday urged established Sikhs
all across the world to contribute one per cent of their earnings
to provide free quality education to poor children in the state.
"We have called upon the Sikh intellectuals, representatives of
social and religious organisations to jointly chalk out an action
plan to impart quality education based on Sikh values to our
children, throughout the country, and to establish a fund for this
purpose," he said.
"I also appeal the Sikhs who have established themselves all over
the world to contribute only one per cent of their earnings for
the cause to provide free quality education to the children of the
poor class in Punjab," Badal added.
A huge number of NRIs from different parts of Punjab are based in
the US, Britain, Canada, Australia, the Gulf countries and in
various European countries.
"The main aim of our government is to empower the masses through
education and to make them employable or self-employable. We have
already initiated the 'Adarsh school' scheme to provide free
education to the intelligent rural students in the state," said
Badal.
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