Chandigarh, Aug. 19 -- Education minister Harjot Singh Bains on Tuesday said the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab had spent Rs.2,300 crore on the reform programme for state-run schools. Presenting a status report while addressing a press conference here, he said that during its four-and-a-half-year tenure, the state surpassed Kerala to emerge as number one in school education, according to the NITI (National Institution for Transforming India) Aayog report for 2026-27. Bains added that 3.64 lakh students have shifted from private schools to government schools since 2022, attributing the transformation to the state government's focus on strengthening government schools since assuming office in March 2022. According to Bains, the AAP government has spent an average of Rs.15 lakh on each school....