Overview
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Overview
Education has continued to evolve, diversify and extend its reach and coverage since the dawn of human history.
    India has reached a stage in its economic and technical development when a major effort must be made to ensure that the fruits of change reach all sections. Education is the highway to that goal.
    Life in the coming decades is likely to bring new tensions together with unprecedented opportunities. To enable the people to benefit in the new environment will require new designs of human resource development. The coming generations should have the ability to internalize new ideas constantly and creatively. They have to be imbued with a strong commitment to human values and to social justice. All this implies better education.
   Under Free and Compulsory Education all children in the age group of 6-14  are to be provided free Primary Education. In order to achieve the goal of Universalisation of Primary Education efforts are being made to increase retention of children in schools, increase their enrollment, opening of new Primary Schools, provision of infrastructure in the existing Primary Schools, innovative approach in the schools and decentralized Planning, irrespective of Social bias. The object of Free and Compulsory Education is being achieved by mobilizing Community support in the villages where large percentage of illiterate population reside.

Number of Schools in Punjab in 2003-2004

Enrollment
Total Enrolment as on 2002
(In Govt. & Non Govt. (Recognised Schools only)

Infrastructure

Primary
Number of Govt. And Non Govt. (Recognized) school and enrollment
during the year 2002

Middle

Number of Govt. And Non Government (Recognized) school and enrollment
during the year 2002

Higher Secondary

Number of Government  And Non Government (Recognized) school and enrollment during the year 2003-2004

Senior Secondary

Number of Government And Non   Government. (Recognized) school and enrollment  during the year 2003-2004