Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) is going to introduce its Education Voucher Scheme (EVS) in 17 new districts to provide quality education to poor kids. Chairman Punjab Education Foundation Raja Anwar stated this while addressing the annual prize distribution function of an EVS partner school at Madinah Colony, Baghban Pura, here on Saturday.
Explaining the pro-poor features of EVS, Anwar said that it was very beneficial for the poor children who, work and face exploitation at work place. They could not attend any school due to poverty. He said that PEF was providing free education to 60,000 deserving students in 17 different districts under EVS where it had been proved very beneficial for the economically deprived families.
Anwar said, "Keeping in view the importance of education, PEF will introduce Education Voucher Scheme in districts of Sahiwal, Pakpattan, Hafizabad, Mandi Bahauddin, Chakwal, Attock, Rajanpur, Dera Ghazi Khan, Bahawalnagar, Jhang, Jhelum, Layyah, Lodhran, Nankana Sahib, Sargodha, Sheikhupura and Toba Tek Singh." Punjab Education Foundation has planned to provide educational vouchers to 140,000 students by June 2012, he added. Anwar hoped that EVS would provide quality education to child labourers and out of school children.
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