Central leader of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) and former provincial minister Abdul Aleem Khan has underlined the need to provide meaningful and modern educational opportunities to the youth. He was addressing a function of National Aimed School System here at Alhamra Hall on Sunday. He added that private institutions were adding their due share towards education sector, but the government was ignoring its responsibilities to raise the literacy rate.
Punjab University ex-vice chancellor and NASS chairman Lt-Gen (retd) Arshad Mahmood, faculty members, parents and students of National Aimed School System attended this ceremony in a large number.
Abdul Aleem Khan said that unfortunately the education sector has never been priority of the government and every year a meager amount is allocated in the annual budget.
He said that equal opportunities to the masses in urban and rural areas for education have not been made available so far and millions of rupees were being spent in the papers only.
He lauded the efforts being made for education on the platform of National Aimed School System under which in different cities schools were operating at an affordable fee with required standards.
On this occasion, students of National Aimed School System presented a number of skits and programmes. LtGen (retd) Arshad Mahmood, in his address, said that this network in different cities has successfully completed its first session.
PMA flays Punjab govt for ignoring doctors: Pakistan Medical Association (PMA), while expressing dissatisfaction over the policy of the Punjab government towards the health sector, has said that no allocation for service structure of doctors in the budget will cause agitation by doctors. PMA General Secretary Dr Izhar Kazmi said that the Punjab government should have fixed some allocations for the service structure of doctors as a first step to resolve the issue but the ill-conceived policy of the government towards doctors’ community had created a sense of deprivation among the doctors. PMA leader commented that a paltry amount of around Rs 37 billion was quite insufficient and expressed the non-serious attitude of the Punjab government towards health sector.
Dr Izhar demanded the Punjab Government to double the allocations for health sector in the larger interest of people and the doctors’ community.
