Minister for Population Welfare Punjab Neelam Jabbar Chaudhry has said that government has reserved Rs 145 billion for the welfare of poor masses. She said that Rs 30 billion would be spent for the provision of food items while Rs 1 billion have been reserved for the provision of homes to the shelter less people.
She said this while talking to the various delegations at her office here on Wednesday. She also said Pakistan needs skilled manpower, and trained managers for running the future projects and poverty alleviation can only be possible if we focus on producing good professionals and skilled workers.
She said Rs 200 million have been reserved in the current fiscal year budget for the scholarship of needy students of professional educational institutions. She also said that the provincial government has declared promotion of education as one of the top priorities of his government and has introduced "Universal Education Programme-2010" under which every child of Punjab will go to school by 2010.
She said that coalition government will introduce people friendly policies in the province and it will not deceive the people with catchy slogans or publicity campaign.
She said that due to practical steps taken by the government to overhaul the education sector, dropout rate of students would be decreased and new students would be enrolled in the schools and missing facilities in the schools especially in rural areas would be provided.