Minister for Education Punjab, Mian Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman has said that government is implementing a comprehensive programme for providing modern educational facilities to the children and all out cooperation as well as assistance is being provided to the private schools.
He said that Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) is providing grant and scholarships to the private educational institutions and students as the private educational institutions are performing a valuable service in the field of education.
He said that Daanish School project is a revolutionary step of Punjab government which will not only minimise the divide between the rich and the poor but the children of the poor parents will also be able to acquire modern education and play their due role in national development and prosperity.
He expressed these views at a seminar on the role of private education institutions for the promotion of education organised by a private college in collaboration with a private media group.
The minister also performed the inauguration ceremony of Doha College Lower Mall. Minister Education said that the network of Daanish Schools would be spread to the whole province as this programme will not only help in this direction but will also open up new avenues of progress and development whereas poorest of the poor students will also avail modern education facilities through the project of Daanish School. The minister said that Daanish schools would spread knowledge in every nook and corner of the country and would remove poverty and ignorance from backward areas and a new era of progress and development will usher in.
The minister said that government is implementing a comprehensive programme for providing modern educational facilities to the children. He said that government schools had been given the status of English medium schools last year while Punjab government had also lunched a vigorous campaign for primary enrolment and lakh of children have been given admission in the schools so far as a result of this campaign whereas government was giving emphasis on the teachers training and funds have been provided to the concerned department for this purpose.
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