Enrolment in public sector schools has considerably increased and double shift has been introduced in 200 out of 354 schools adopted by NGOs that have joined hands with the City District Government, Lahore (CDGL) for uplift of education sector in the city.
District Nazim Mian Amer Mahmood said this while briefing the visiting mayor of Glasgow UK, Liz Cameron, and her entourage at Jinnah Hall on Monday. The CDGL and private sector had been endeavouring jointly for improvement in service delivery and other sectors, including education, health, sanitation and other areas, he observed.
Lahore was the unique city in the world where non-government organisations and philanthropists were paying salaries of 1500 teachers and incurring a monthly expenditure of six million rupees for this purpose, he added.
Amer further said that the CDGL had offered lucrative incentives to private entrepreneur for establishing compost plant for manufacturing organic manure in the city besides setting up the first ever land fill site of Pakistan in Lahore for disposing of solid waste.
The district nazim welcomed training facilities of Glasgow City Council for imparting training to the workers of Rescue 1122 in the city, which had rescued 41,000 persons ever since its inception in October 2004.
Expressing her deep interest in the initiatives and reforms of the CDGL, the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Mayor Liz Cameron said, "you can teach us as we can. This is the way who we want to forge this friendly relationship." She underlined the need for identifying common points where people of both the cities would benefit from experience of each other.
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