'Education, healthcare facilities will be provided': minister speaks to workers

Provincial Minister for Labour Haji Ehsaan-ud-Din Qureshi has said that government is implementing a comprehensive programme for providing modern educational as well as state of the art healthcare facilities to the labourers and workers' children.
While talking to various delegations of labourers, Haji Ehsaan-ud-Din Qureshi said that government is giving top priority to the provision of modern healthcare facilities to all segments of the society, specially the labourers.
He said that Daanish School programme of the Chief Minister Punjab will not only help in this direction but will also opens up new avenues of progress and development. He said that setting up of computer labs in schools, establishment of centres of excellence, provision of missing facilities in 10 thousand schools besides a number of steps have been taken for this purpose. He said that all government schools would be given the status of English medium schools in 2011, while Punjab government is also lunching a vigorous campaign for primary enrolment this year.
He said that government is also awarding scholarships to thousands of talented students for studying in the country and abroad through the endowment fund of Rs 6 billion, whereas Rs 2 billion have been added in the fund during next fiscal year. He said that four new medical colleges would be opened up in the province in health sector whereas two medical colleges each at Lahore and Faisalabad would be launched by the labour department. In order to provide specialised treatment/diagnostic facilities near to the workplace of labourers, the Labour Department has established satellite clinics, he concluded.