The Punjab government is committed to promote technical and vocational education in the province to provide better economic opportunities to the students. For this purpose, it has been decided to introduce technical and vocational education at the school level. 100 comprehensive high schools of the Schools Education Department in different districts will be made vocational training institutes to provide state-of-the-art training facilities to the students.
Provincial Schools Education Minister Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan said this while talking to a delegation of Tianjin University of Technical Education of China at the committee room of Civil Secretariat, here on Wednesday.
Chairman TEVTA Irfan Qaiser was also present on the occasion. The Minister was told that the Chinese delegation has visited Raiwind and Township to select the suitable spot. It has been contemplating to set up campus in Township. The meeting was told that two or three schools will be selected from each district while four schools will be chosen in Lahore and Kasur. For this purpose, work on PC-I is in progress. The Minister for Schools Education observed that education, science and technology and technical courses should be introduced from 6th class to motivate the budding minds towards such fields. He said that these concepts should also be continued in higher education to facilitate the youth who would be able to earn livelihood in the practical field.
Later, Provincial Minister was given a separate briefing about Khadim-e-Punjab School Bag Program by the Schools Education Department in the Civil Secretariat. He was told that this program would be started from Lahore, Muzaffargarh, Rahim Yar Khan, Rajanpur, Rawalpindi and Toba Tek Singh in the first phase. This program would help to alleviate poverty along with increase in school enrolment. He directed that a comprehensive roadmap should be developed so that more and more students could be facilitated through this program.
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