"After cheating the farmers with a bogus loan waiver scheme, the government has now betrayed the girls by failing to honour the free education commitment made to them by Chief Minister Amarinder Singh in the Assembly last month," SAD spokesman and former Punjab minister Maheshinder Singh Grewal said in a statement here.
Just like the loan waiver announcement made during the Budget Session in the Assembly, which was yet to be implemented, the government failed to honour the commitment to provide free education to girls from the primary to PhD level in all government institutions, he alleged.
However, he added that their hopes were shattered when the admissions started and the schools and colleges told them they had not received any such notification.
"The same had happened with the farmers when they went to the banks thinking their loans had been waived," said Grewal.
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The Akali leader said the entire agriculture economy was passing through a severe crisis.
Since the admission process was nearing completion in all the institutions, the parents had no option but pay the fees if they wanted to admit their wards in them, added Grewal.
Demanding an immediate notification on the free education announcement, he said the government should order the schools and colleges to refund the money taken from the girl students.
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