PG Department of Economics, Khalsa College, Amritsar organized a Guest lecture on Budget-2020

PG Department of Economics, Khalsa College, Amritsar organized a Guest lecture on Budget-2020. The resource person Dr. Gian Singh, Professor (Retd.) Punjabi University, Patiala discussed about highlights of Punjab Budget-2020 and its implications on the future of Punjab.

He highlighted about the major points relating to free education till 12^th in public schools, about announcement of 19 new ITI’s, degree colleges and universities in Punjab. Later, he talked about schemes and allocations given to agriculture sector in budget by Congress government. Further, various employment avenues were also discussed and concept of Brain drain and Capital drain was also stressed.

Queries were raised by the students of Economics department and discussion was done. Prof. Jagwinder Kaur Ghuman , Head, PG Department of Economics thanked the esteemed guest. Dr. Geetinder Mann, Dr. Saveeta, Dr Navjot Kaur, Dr. Supreet Kaur, Dr. Seozy Bhatia, Dr. Kawaljeet Kaur, Dr. Pinky Bains and Dr. Harmandeep Kaur were also present on the occasion.