Punjab Chief Minister has assured revolutionary steps to promote and popularise education among the masses and banish illiteracy even from the remotest areas of the province.
Punjab Minister for Food Hussain Jehanian Gardezi talking to newspersons on Monday said the measures taken by Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi had covered all aspects of the situation, providing incentives for education of the girl-child, which was earlier resisted by people in some backward areas.
Motivational steps in this sector also encouraged enrolment of thousands of more children in schools, as well as dissemination of adult literacy and put an end to the dropout phenomenon in schools. "The positive outcome of these steps defy description," the minister asserted.
He said the new schools were being opened, old ones were being upgraded and literacy centres were being established in backward areas to end the scourge of illiteracy.
Billions were being spent on the education sector reforms programme to provide better education facilities to people at the grassroots level, he said. In district Khanewal alone, 15,000 adult literacy centres were being set up so that men and women deprived of education might be made literate, and a part of the national development process, he added.
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