The Punjab Government has decided to convert 17,299 more classrooms of 12,507 Government schools in the State into smart classrooms, besides transforming 24 rooms of 22 District Institute of Education and Training (DIETs) into smart training rooms.

An amount of Rs 117 crore would be spent for transformation of these training and class rooms.

That apart from the improvement in the facilities, few path-breaking initiatives like online teacher transfer policy, smart schools policy, pre-primary Education, digital education and special cadre of teachers working in border areas, which have also led to remarkable improvement in the quality of education across the State.