Amritsar, April 10 -- School education minister Harjot Singh Bains launched infrastructural works worth Rs.4.25 crore under the Sikhya Kranti initiative in the border districts of Amritsar and Tarn Taran on Wednesday. The work on some of those projects has been completed and they were dedicated to schools.

Bains said over Rs.2,000 crore is being spent to transform government schools with 12% of the total expenditure in Punjab's 2025-26 budget allocated to education, the highest in history. All border-area schools would receive modern infrastructure and additional teachers, with over 300 new teachers being already deployed in the past two years, he said.

During his visit to schools in border areas, Bains inaugurated works worth Rs.32.02 ...