Balachaur, November 16, 2018 : The government high and primary schools, at village Gahun, situated at remote Kandi area in Nawanshahr district have emerged as epitome of motivational smart schools. The staff of these schools has set worth emulating initiative of setting up state of the art Smart Class rooms by mobilising donations from the NRI philanthropists.
Harvinder Pal Singh, Headmaster , while divulging details said that the school staff with the active cooperation from the School Management Committee and the philanthropists from here and abroad, has consistently been bringing in infrastructural development as well as quality improvement in education. A beautiful building having serene and conducive environment for the all round development of the students. Besides, a state of the art ' Smart Class Room' has been set up at a cost of Rs. 1.50 lakh in the school.
"The students from about a dozen of adjoining villages ,including , Lohat, Sudha Mazra, Rakkeran Bet, New Colony Rakkeran Bet, Tej Pulana, Manewal, Boothgarh, Lohgarh have been availing of the facility of quality education in the school", said Gurdev Singh Rai, retired school teacher, who is presently contributing his services as educationist in the School Management Committee and as member District Child Development Committee .
The wholehearted financial support from the community could be gauged from the fact that recently an NRI Satwinder Singh Rai had set up ' Smart Class Room' in the Govt. Primary School too. Now the village Gahun has the distinction of having converted both of the schools into Smart Schools, he further added.
The students of the schools had been excelling in academic, sports and co-curricular activities. The School was upgraded from middle to high in 2012 and as many as 15 students have succeeded in getting admission in meritorious schools, said Gurdev Singh Rai, while urging the MLA, Balachaur, Darshan Lal Mangupur to initiate efforts to get the school upgraded to senior secondary level to facilitate the youth of the backward Kandi and Bet area to have an access to the facility of education in different streams like humanities, science, commerce and vocational courses at their door step.