Educational reforms: Rs 10 billion scholarships being provided from Endowment Fund

Provincial Minister for Education, Mian Mujtaba Shuja ur Rehman has said that IT labs have been set up in more than 5000 high schools and 515 middle schools. He said that scholarships of ten billion rupees are being provided to thousands of students within country and abroad from Endowment Fund.
He said that modern science lab have been established in one thousand high schools of the province at a cost of one billion rupees. He continued that 2,62,500 students under the age of 4 to 15 years are getting education under non-formal basic education schools. While talking to delegation of school teachers, Mian Mujtaba Shujja ur Rehman informed that 3068 primary and middle schools have been upgraded at a cost of Rs 13005 million during the last four years.
He said that government schools have been given the status of English medium schools last year while Punjab government has also lunched a vigorous campaign for primary enrolment and 3.1 million children have been given admission in the schools so far as a result of this campaign whereas governments was giving emphasis on the teachers training.
He said that Punjab Government has spent Rs 19 billion during last four years to provide missing facilities in 8749 schools of the province, whereas, Rs 5 billion will be spent during current fiscal year for provision of missing facilities in two thousand schools. He said that more than 50 thousand teachers have been recruited on merit in a transparent manner for removing shortage of school teachers throughout the province.