Punjab govt to spend Rs 5 b on 2000 schools
Punjab govt has decided to spend Rs 5 billion on 200 schools in order to uplift academic standard.
Punjab Education Minister Mian Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman has said that education is the top priority of the provincial government, and Education Department is strictly following the rules to recruit the employees. The government has recruited 70,000 teachers purely on merit in a transparent manner, he added.He said the government had taken new initiatives in the field of education during four years.He said the Punjab government had spent Rs. 19 billion during the last four years to provide missing facilities in 8749 schools of the province whereas Rs. 5 billion would be spent during the current financial year for the provision of the missing facilities in 2000 schools.He said that amount for endowment fund had been increased up to Rs. 10 billion. He said Rs. one billion stipend was being distributed among the girl students, belonging to remote and deprived areas to encourage the female education.Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman while talking to representatives said that the Punjab government had provided a sum of Rs. 10 billion to promote the school education in the marginalized strata, and 1.5 million deserving students in 36 districts would benefit from the said amount.He told the media that a sum of Rs. 46 billion would be spent on the school education sector to raise it according to international standards.He said that more than three million children had been given admission to the schools as a result of the primary enrolment campaign launched by the Punjab government.He said the government was also awarding scholarships to thousands of talented students for studying in the country and abroad.He said that 2.5 million boy and girl students were getting computer education every year in the province through IT Promotion Program of the Chief Minister Punjab.
