LUDHIANA: Two government teachers have been selected for Online Malaysian Technical Cooperation Programme from entire country.
They will be trained on digital tools to develop basic English language proficiency.
The training is divided into two phases — Phase I, which will be from June 21 to June 28 and Phase Il from June 28 to July 2.
Shakti Kumar, a lecturer in English at Shaheed-E-Azam Sukhdev Thapar Government Senior Secondary Smart School, Bharat Nagar and Rohit Singh Saini, lecturer in English at GSSS Kadianwali have been selected by the ministry of external affairs.
Chander Shekhar, state resource person, English and social studies (SST) said, “We sent names of six lecturers and two have been selected and these are from Punjab.
This program will be beneficial for the training of teachers under ‘Padho Punjab, Padhao Punjab’.” Talking to TOI, Shakti Kumar, lecturer in English at Shaheed-E-Azam Sukhdev Thapar Government Senior Secondary Smart School, Bharat Nagar said, “The Republic of Malaysia has invited nominations under the Technical Assistance Programme with India.
The number of slots available for India was two and the nomination of candidates was regulated by the guidelines prescribed by DEA.
The course is sponsored by the government of Malaysia.”