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Overview

After the partition of the country in 1947, the Punjab Education Department functioned from a camp office set up in Shimla’s Metropole Hotel. At that time, the Education Secretary was also Director of Public Instruction. On February 15, 1959, the office was shifted to Chandigarh, the new capital of Punjab. In 1966, when the southern districts of Punjab were constituted as the new state of Haryana, the department was reorganised with some staff going to the new state. At present, four Directorates function under the Punjab Education Department, namely the Directorate of Public Instruction, (Colleges), Directorate of Secondary Education, Directorate of Primary Education and Directorate of State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT).

With growing pace of industrialization in Punjab, the main stress has been on expansion, modernisation and reorientation of Technical Education and Industrial Training system so as to match it with emerging technologies for ensuring quality manpower availability to the industrial sector. The basic objective is to produce Engineers, Technicians and Craftsmen who are welcomed as assets by the Industry of world class capability. For this purpose, besides opening up new Engineering colleges, Polytechnics and Industrial training in the emerging areas, the existing institutions are being modernized by providing new equipment and machinery with the assistance of World Bank as also the State Government. To consolidate the development in these  fields, a new full fledge 'Punjab Technical University' at Jalandhar has been established.

Punjab is ranked seventh in terms of education amongst the states
The Higher Education Department, Government of the Punjab provides education from Inter to Postgraduate level in various disciplines through 361 Colleges functioning in the eight divisions under the supervision and guidance of the Secretary Education, Government of the Punjab. The total includes 76 Inter, 218 Degree and 67 Postgraduate Institutions (Male/Female). The purpose is to not only enlighten the beneficiaries of the department i.e. the students but also to broaden their mental horizon in order to prepare them to cope up with the challenges of the 21st century’s world.

The Department envisions the society as a society habitually capable of living with high ideals; tolerant of others’ views and aspirations; a society which can co-exist with the changing times and assimilates the phenomenon of globalization of the world; a society which knows the joys of meaningful living; a society keen to protect its younger generation and leave behind a better world. We believe in equal opportunity for all in the quest for education and are striving to impart quality education of a standard recognized at the world community level. We recognize our duty to make quality education affordable for the common man and are striving to create an environment where education would lead to prosperity and improve the general standard of living for the masses.

STATE PROFILE OF PUNJAB

The state has a large network of colleges and schools which has been necessary over a period of time depending on the needs.

Punjab has a well developed educational system consisting of

5 Universities, 2 deemed universities

38 Engineering Colleges: 9,455 students passing out each year

57 MBA & BBA Colleges: 2,000 students passing out each year

25 MCA Colleges: 1,180 students passing out each year

355 undergraduate Colleges: 44,000 students passing out each year

75 post graduate Colleges : 16,032 students passing out each year

Number of man-hours lost due to lockouts, strikes and disputes are lowest in Punjab.
It is 1/3rd of UP, 1/4th of Haryana, less than half of Rajasthan.
Punjab also offers peaceful and productive labour at the very reasonable cost.