The private educational institutions are playing a pivotal role in providing quality education and the government highly appreciates the services of private sector for the improvement of literacy rate, said Punjab Minister for Law, Excise and Taxation and Finance Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman while talking to a delegation of Pakistan Private Schools Management Association.
Rehman said that the budget allocated for education is Rs 274 billion which is 26.25 percent of total expenditures. He said that improvement of higher education is the priority of the government and Rs 14.5 billion has been provided for promotion of the higher education. He said that new targets have been set under the Punjab School Reforms Roadmap and the 18-point new roadmap will have to be implemented in letter and spirit for achieving all these targets till 2018.
He said that provision of the education is constitutional obligation of the government, but government cannot do this duty single handedly, and requires the support of private sector in this regard.