FAISALABAD
STAFF REPORT
Punjab Law Minister Rana Sana Ullah Khan has said that Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has been focusing on the promotion of quality education in the province.
“To achieve the desired results, various revolutionary policies have been introduced for the encouragement of outstanding students and provision of scholarships to them for higher studies in well reputed educational institutions under endowment fund,” he said and added this was in addition to the establishment of Danish schools in the backward areas of the province as a talent hunting scheme.
He was addressing the audience at the inaugural ceremony of the construction of a new academic block at a cost of Rs 3.5 million at Government MC Girls High School Nisar Colony. The ceremony was attended by EDO Education Sohaib Imran, Headmistress Shamim Ata, PML-N political workers, including Rana Muzaffar, Mian Tanvir, Jamal Dogar and a large number of residents and parents from the area.
The law minister announced Rs 10 million for expanding the school building and asked the EDO (education) to order repair and maintenance of the present dilapidated school building. He said poor students with outstanding academic record were being provided with scholarships and added no deserving student meeting the academic criterion would be deprived of higher education only because of financial constraints.
He hoped that all the deserving cases would be taken up as the chief minister had initially established Punjab Endowment Fund of Rs. 2 billion which would further be enhanced in the next budget. He stated that Danish schools were being set up for the children of labourers, peasants and poor people to impart free of cost quality education to them as per the standard of Aitchison College, besides providing the facilities of boarding, lodging, uniforms and books. He claimed Danish school system would help eliminate ignorance from the backward areas.
Rana Sana Ullah said various developmental projects had been initiated for the improvement of schools in his constituency, PP-70. He added that provision of education from primary to degree level to female students at their doorsteps was always his top priority in the development agenda. He revealed the construction work of a girls degree college was underway at a cost of Rs 50 million. He added Rs 20 million were being spent on the construction of additional academic blocks in higher secondary schools while a new building was also being constructed at a cost of Rs 8 million in Government High School Samanabad.
