Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Deputy Secretary-General on Tuesday claimed that education, energy and exports (3Es) will be the key thrust areas of the party's future economic programme.
"In an age of Knowledge Revolution, Pakistan's human resource potential has been neglected. The key to success is a smart human resource equipped with creative and entrepreneurial skills", he said while talking to media persons here, adding that the multi class system in the country has destroyed the social cohesiveness of our society and leading towards social and economic anarchy.
He said that PML-N government in Punjab has undertaken a number of initiatives in this direction, which will be extended to all other provinces, adding that all government high schools have been equipped with state-of-the-art computer laboratories to bridge the digital divide in the country.
He said that merit based recruitment of teachers is making a difference and now recruitment of 32,000 science teachers will lay foundation for a science based education relevant to our national development priorities. He further said that Danish Schools are offering quality education to best of the best from poorest of the poor students.
He said that PML-N Monday's Energy Conference has given hope to the nation that even though the energy challenge is very serious, yet it is solvable. "The present crisis is self inflicted due to failure of Musharraf and Zardari regimes incompetence and corruption", he said, adding that on October 12, 1999, Pakistan had surplus electricity, which it was negotiating with India to export, but in next decade new power generation projects were not installed to keep pace with growth in population and demand.
He criticised the PPP policy of 1994 to skew power generation heavily on thermal generation played havoc by making country's power generation dependent on imported oil. He also referred to Pakistan 2010 Programme initiated by PML-N government envisaged to raise power generation capacity 28,000MW by 2010, which was scrapped by Musharraf regime. "Without energy, all economic plans will fail, therefore, it will be a major priority area", he said, adding that line losses and peer thefts have made crisis worst.
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