Punjab Education Minister Mian Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman has asked teachers to bring out leadership abilities in their students and develop them as confident and energetic youth leaders. He was talking a delegation comprising teachers and students of a private institution on Wednesday, disclosed an official.
He said the Punjab government aimed to set-up women universities in Bahawalpur, Multan, Sialkot and Faisalabad so that new opportunities of higher education for the women could be further enhanced whereas, Rs 1 billion stipend was being distributed in the girl students belonging to remote and deprived areas to encourage female education.
According to him, the government has provided a sum of Rs 10 billion to promote school education in the marginalised section of the society and 1.5 million deserving students in 36 districts would benefit during the current year. A sum of Rs 46 billion will be spent on school education sector to elevate it according to international standards.
As a result of launching of school reforms programme, as many as one million new students of 5 to 9 years age have been enrolled in schools during last two years in Punjab. Mujtaba said the government has distributed 60,000 education vouchers among the deserving students to enable them complete their education in their favourite schools.
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