Sukhbir @ 7: ‘Student Card Scheme’ will be launched if voted to power, says Sukhbir Badal
Mohali, February 10:With less than a fortnight left for the elections 2022, all parties are flexing muscles to garner the vote bank. Amid the ban proposed on the election rallies by the election commission, Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal is connecting with the masses through its virtual campaign.
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In the tenth episode of Sukhbir @ 7pm, SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal held a brief conversation on the issues being faced by the students and access to higher education.
Sharing his vision party president Sukhbir Singh Badal said “Infrastructure and other developments can wait but directing the youth in right way is a challenge that we have to overcome at any cost. I believe today we need to invest in human resources i.e our students. We need to ensure them of a secure future that they totally deserve. I promise that no student in government would fear high college fees.”
Sharing an incident about how students of Punjab are denied their right to education, SAD president said, “In Badal village while doing ‘Sangat Darshan’ we use to encounter so many such cases. Students from poor background would show up stating that we have bagged admission in so and so university but sadly cannot pursue ahead to weak financial support. Few of them couldn’t even afford 20,000 fees. Eventually such students, if not given monetary support, will withdraw their names from the colleges and end up being unemployed. But had they been given a student loan, things would be totally different. A student receiving help of 20-50-80 thousand for studies will land into a job that will help him to become capable enough to feed his family. You see this will solve so many challenges simultaneously that Punjab is facing today.”
Ensuring higher education to all the students in Punjab, Sukhbir Singh Badal said “SAD will come up with a ‘Student Card Scheme”. To avail the benefits the student will just need to submit offer letter that they receive from college and they will get financial assistance of up to 10 lac rupees. And let me tell you that this scheme would be valid for all the universities around the world.”
Talking about the loan repayment, CM candidate of Shiromani Akali Dal said, “Students can repay this loan after 4 years of landing into a secure job, that too in EMI spanning over 15 years. They would not be required to pay any sort of security or interest for the same."
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For more details check out the full Episode of Sukhbir @ 7
-PTC News
