He called upon its management to take a leadership role in the implementation of a programme to produce good and complete citizens committed to the cause of the nation and society at large.

Rodrigues said that a broad-based study, which Guru Nanak Dev University as carrying out, through interactive process with distinguished people from different fields of endeavour has emphasised the need to revamp primary level education and motivate our young students with the focus on discipline in life, moral values and self-confidence.

“Institutions like PPS, Nabha can be a model for implementing the project for other rural and urban education institutions in the state and that the academic curriculum must be combined with the values of humanism and secularism, enshrined in our rich heritage,” he said.

The administrator added that the vice-chancellors of all universities in the state have already activated a programme for making education more meaningful and purposeful, to produce the right kind of human resource and to enable our students to successfully compete in the global arena.

Commodore IL Sayal, Headmaster of the school, while presenting agenda items in the meeting, gave an account of innovative measures being taken by the management to further upgrade the standards of education.