Provincial government has spent 111 billion rupees for the promotion of education during last five years which has brought revolution in education sector and made the access to education easier for the poor and deserving students.
This was disclosed by Chairman Punjab Education Foundation Raja Muhammad Anwar while talking to a 10-member delegation of NGOs led by Khalid Butt, associated with education sector, at his residence today. He said that Punjab government has given top priority to the promotion of education and made maximum investment for the improvement of education system and the entire country benefitted from it. He said that quality education system is the basic of national development, therefore, provincial government has provided an educated and confident leadership to Pakistan through educational development. Useful projects like endowment fund, daanish schools, Punjab Education Foundation and laptop have changed the fate of youth, he added.
Raja Anwar further said that due to government efforts, besides providing pleasant environment in the schools, availability of potable water, construction of boundary walls and furniture as well as provision of text books free of cost and the process of setting up computer and science laboratories is also being made. He told that cash prizes of Rs.2 billion have been distributed among the teachers who showed outstanding performance whereas services of one lakh nine thousand teachers have been regularized so that they could perform their duties in an efficient manner. Raja Anwar stressed upon the NGOs to launch projects of providing free education to poor segments of the society for the promotion of education so that no child could remain deprived of education.