Ludhiana, May 18 -- Even as the government continues its 'Punjab Sikhya Kranti' campaign by launching a wave of infrastructural projects in government schools, teachers are still waiting to be reimbursed for expenses they personally bore to hold inauguration ceremonies.

Since April 7, schools across the state have been hosting inauguration ceremonies for development works under the state's ambitious 54-day education initiative. The campaign aims to cover around 25,000 renovation and repair projects worth Rs.2,000 crore across 12,000 government schools. These projects are to be inaugurated by May 31, with an estimated cost of Rs.20 crore for the inauguration events alone.

But behind the scenes, the burden of organising these ceremonies -...