Ludhiana: Parents allege migration policy forces meritorious students to compromise on preferred stream, school

Punjab's Meritorious Schools migration policy processes requests only after all counselling rounds, subject to vacant seats.

Parents allege high-ranking students must accept undesired streams or schools during their counselling session or lose admission.

Shinderpal Kaur from Moga secured non-medical stream at Ludhiana Meritorious School despite wanting medical, as no medical seats were available initially.

A parent from Fazilka said her daughter compromised on both school and stream due to lack of nearby seats and medical stream availability.

Parents plan to approach the education department seeking changes to the migration policy.