Presiding over a meeting of various departments, the Chief Minister described Education as the core sector which would be streamlined and kept under sharp focus. The Chief Minister also directed for creation of 2,000 Physical Education teachers in primary schools and recruitment so as to ensure the robust Health of the school students apart from focusing on the academic aspect.
Advocating the formation of clusters in every village whereby the village having a primary, middle and the high school would be availing the Services of a single physical education trainer, Channi asked the School Education Department to actively consider the proposal. Besides, he discussed various issues related to various unions and directed that the department may have discussions and after examining their demand may take up the matter with Finance Department.
Accepting the long pending demand of around 1,000 headmasters and teachers recruited under RMSA, the CM directed the Finance Department to release state share of salaries which were cut due to upper cap made by Government of India (in 2016). It will cost around 3.2 Crore to state exchequer.