Promoting education: Foundation commended for ‘effective’ textbook distribution drive

LAHORE:

Owners of several Punjab Education Foundation partner schools on Sunday commended the PEF for making effective arrangements regarding the distribution of six million text books across 4,000 schools province-wide.

Owners Fareed Khan Bangash, Ijaz Khan Chandia, Jafar Hussain Bhutta, Tahir Maqbool, Ali Imran Jaffri, Khalid Javed, Khizr Hayat Chaudhry and Sheikh Muhammad Arshad credited PEF Chairman Engineer Qamarul Islam Raja for introducing far-reaching and sustained reforms aimed at making the foundation proactive and result-oriented in a statement issued on Sunday. They said the foundation had put a supportive and collaborative mechanism in place for the benefit of partner schools. The owners said this had encouraged them to play their due role in promoting free education.

They praised the foundation for providing six million books in an efficient manner. They said the PEF had also ensured that books were distributed in districts across the Punjab to save partner schools from incurring transport costs. They said the new admission policy would improve enrolment at schools. The owners said this would especially encourage children currently out of school to resume their studies through PEF-sponsored education programmes.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 27^th, 2015.