Caretaker Federal Minister for Human Resource Development Barrister Feroz Jamal Shah has said that the government was paying special attention for the education of labourers’ children and for this purpose high standard schools were being set up.
Addressing a programme held in line with the International Labour Day, Shah said the government was also establishing vocational and polytechnic schools so that children of laborers easily get jobs at the completion of their education.
He said the government paid a monthly scholarship of Rs 3,500 for the children of workers, adding that if the children continued education after matriculation then all the expenses were borne by the government.
The minister said the government gave Rs 0.5 million from the Workers Welfare Fund to the families of the workers who died while performing their duties. He said an additional grant of Rs 100,000 was given for dowry to the daughters of such workers.
Federal Secretary Ahsan Raja said on this occasion that the government was going to make a medical and dental college where 50 percent of seats would be reserved for workers’ children. “The Employees Old-age Benefits Institution is paying pension to 400,000 pensioners,” he added.
