LAHORE - The Punjab Government is spending an amount of Rs. 4 billion on the provision of various missing facilities in public sector schools in the province so that students, studying in these low-fee schools, can get quality education and their mental ken also be improved through the provision of conducive learning atmosphere. This amount is being used to provide essential facilities like classroom furniture, electricity, potable water, construction of boundary wall, provision of clean toilet facility and other essential necessities.
This was said by Punjab Education Foundation Chairman Raja Anwar while talking to a 15-member delegation of school headmasters and teachers belonging to various districts on Sunday. While talking to the delegation, Raja Anwar said that a total of Rs. 14.5 billion was being spent on the execution of various developmental projects of school sector in the current annual development program. Keeping in view the importance of school tier in the overall education sector, special attention was paid to improving the standard of education in the school side, he said. He hoped the government efforts “will help improve the educational standard of the public sector schools”.