SSA - DEEP Annual Work Plan 2002-2003 & Perspective Plan 2002-2007 District Hoshiarpur (Punjab)

Abstract

From Education: Though Hoshiarpur is an economically backward district, yet in the field of education and literacy, it is one of the most advanced districts of the State. The people of the district being adventurous were the first to migrate to foreign countries in the nineteenth century. Consequently it aroused political consciousness and sense of patriotism in them to serve their motherland and they brought with them new ideas about education. They had sufficient finances to start number of educational institutions in the district. In 1901 the number of private educational institution was 4 High Schools, 8 Anglovernacular Middle Schools and 134 Primary Schools.