Punjab Public Accounts Committee Chairman Asif Saeed Manais has said that 11,000 graduate and post-graduate teachers will be recruited on contract soon in every district of the province.
Talking to journalists here on Thursday, he said the government was planning to launch a project of "education town" for the welfare of teachers. He said this would be a joint project involving public and private sector in which houses would be given to teachers on soft loan and down payment. Besides, a handsome salary package would be offered to them, he said.
He said that a record number of 1.7 million students were enrolled in schools across the province last year and it had been acknowledged as a landmark achievement by the donor organisations.
He added that Rs 54 billion would be spent for increasing enrolment, literacy and up-gradation of education standard in the next three years under the "Literate Punjab Programme" of Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi.
He said Rs 150 million had already been released to each district of the province to provide water, electricity and furniture in 40,000 schools.
To promote sports culture in the province, he said a two-percent quota for admission to colleges and universities had been reserved for sportsmen.
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