Pardeep Agrawal, District Magistrate, Ludhiana
Ludhiana, April 5, 2020: District Magistrate Pardeep Agrawal informed that show cause notice has been served to a private school demanding fee from the parents in violation of the orders of the Punjab government.
In view of the ongoing circumstances and keeping in mind interests of the parents, all private educational institutions have already been directed to re-schedule the last date of depositing fee, and would not force the parents to deposit the fee.
He stated that once the lockdown/curfew is over, the educational institutions would provide one month extra without any fine.
The District Magistrate has directed all the District Education Office to ensure full compliance of these orders.
He said that the district administration is committed to provide cooked food as well as dry ration to the residents of district Ludhiana.
He informed that till date, around 20,000 packets sent by Punjab government of dry ration have been distributed, around 35,000 packets prepared by SDRF and Red Cross, along with around 35,000 more packets from NGOs and organisations have been distributed in the district.
He assured that more food packets would be distributed in the district in the coming days.