Patna, Feb. 19: Chief minister Nitish Kumar today met children of Bihari migrants getting free-of-cost education under the tutelage of eminent environmentalist Sant Balbir Singh Sichewal at Sultanpur (rural) in Punjab.
Nitish was happy to learn that Sichewal had been imparting free education to the children of migrants from Bihar working at Sichewal's environment projects at Kali Bein shrine of Sultanpur.
The chief minister also visited the historic Sri Ber Sahib gurdwara. He was on a daylong visit to the state.
There he met former Punjab finance minister, Upendra Jeet Kaur and Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee members Guruprit Kaur Ruhi, Bhajan Kaur Dograwal, Jarnail Singh Dograwal and Sarwan Singh Kulwar.
Sichewal and others thanked Nitish for organising the 350th birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh in Patna on a grand scale. Bihar water resources minister, Lallan Singh, former chief secretary, G.S. Kang, the principal secretary to the chief minister, Chanchal Kumar, and secretary Atish Chandra accompanied Nitish to Punjab.