Punjab Govt directs to ensure enrollment of single parents children in schools

Chandigarh : Keeping in view the problems of single parents, the Punjab school education department has issued instructions to enroll their children in schools without any hindrance.

Stating this here on Wednesday, a spokesperson of the department said that at present the names of both the mother and father of the child is required to be filled on the admission form. As a result, single parents are finding it difficult to enroll their children in schools.

Due to this, the director school education (senior secondary) has issued a letter to the district education officers and school heads in this regard.

All heads of government, government-aided, aided and unaided schools have been directed not to deny admission to the children of parents living alone for any reason, he added.

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