LAHORE: The Punjab government has provided record funds to promote education since 2008, said Punjab School Education Minister Rana Mashhood Ahmad at a press conference held at the Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board on Saturday.
The minister briefed the media about different educational reforms introduced by the Punjab government to improve the quality of education and to extend education to the children of impecunious strata.
He said that during the last eight years, the school education budget has been enhanced 400 times while the educational budget of school education department has been increased from Rs62 billion to Rs315 billion.
He announced that a three-month long emergency has been announced in the province for getting better results.
Students would be given additional lectures to show better performance in the examinations, he said.
He said that a complaint cell is being setup in the Punjab to solve the issues of the people pertaining to school education department.
The minister said a comprehensive programme of schools improvement has been launched with an amount of Rs50 billion.
He announced that the child between the ages of five to nine year will be in schools by 2018. Early childhood education rooms as well as qualified teachers will be provided in 10,000 primary schools by March 2018.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 22nd, 2017.
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