LAHORE - The Punjab government is taking revolutionary steps for promotion of education in the province.
“Special attention is being paid to increasing literacy rate and improving standard of education in the province,” Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said in his message on the World Literacy Day.
“A comprehensive programme is being implemented for achieving the target of hundred per cent literacy rate. Only those nations have progressed who paid due attention to the education sector, therefore, the Punjab government is attaching top priority to the promotion of education.”
According to the CM’s statement, billions of rupees have been provided to the education sector and target has been fixed to enrol every male and female child in the province by 2018.
“The Punjab government is not only taking comprehensive measures for achieving target of 100 per cent literacy rate but a programme is also being implemented for imparting quality education to boy and girl students in schools.”
Under the government’s initiative on education, Daanish schools have been set up in the most backward areas of the province for providing quality education to the children of the poorest of the poor families.
This Daanish school system is operating successfully for the last five years and besides free education, boarding and lodging facilities are also being provided to the children of low income families free of charge.
The government has established Punjab Educational Endowment Fund and the volume of this fund has reached to Rs15 billion. More than one hundred thousand deprived but talented boy and girl students are getting education in local and foreign educational institutions with the help of this educational fund and all units of the country have been included in this programme.
Shahbaz Sharif said: “The Punjab government is providing all out resources for extending quality educational facilities to the children of poor families. The provision of funds for promotion of education is not expenditure but useful investment for ensuring a bright future for the nation.”
ORANGE LINE METRO TRAIN: In another statement issued from the CM secretariat on Tuesday, Shahbaz Sharif has said the Lahore Orange Line Metro Train project has been launched while Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will formally lay the foundation stone soon.
“This project will bring a revolution in transport sector and work will be carried out round the clock on this project. People of Pakistan are thankful to Chinese leadership for this precious gift,” the CM said.
Labourers, workers, students, doctors, lawyers, farmers, traders and people of all walks of life will travel by metro train in a respectable manner and 0.25 million people will benefit from this project daily.
“After the success of metro bus service in Lahore and Rawalpindi-Islamabad and implementation of ongoing metro bus project in Multan, the project of first metro train in Pakistan will be a revolutionary step towards provision of modern, speedy and comfortable transport facility to the masses,” Shahbaz Sharif said.
Out of 27 km long route of metro train, 24.3 km long section will be at a height of six meters from the ground while 1.7 km track will be underground. 26 stations will be constructed on the route of the train while a depot will also be established.