Department of International Development (DFID) of the United Kingdom on Thursday agreed to provide a sum of 160 million pounds as educational aid to the Punjab government to promote education in poor areas of the province.
According to details, 90 million pounds would be given to the School Education Department while another sum of 70 billion was earmarked for the Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) to arrange education for school children in the province through public-private partnership model.
The PEF envisaged using this amount for the free education of four million deserving children in the province by 2017.
Punjab Education Foundation Chairman Raja Muhammad Anwar, while addressing a meeting, said that the selection of PEF for the promotion of education of children was a clear manifestation of international trust and confidence.
He said that PEF model of public-private partnership won international recognition and acclaim because of its effectiveness and good results.
Moreover, he said that the foundation had taken a number of steps to improve the education standards in low cost partner schools so that the students could get quality education without any burden of expenditures.
Anwar was of the view that a nation that gave priority to its youth honed a better leadership for its future.
He reiterated the commitment of the foundation to arrange education for every deserving child in the province and vowed that the foundation s would eradicate the menace of ignorance by enrolling every last child in the province in a school.