Govt to spend Rs22m on education
The Balochistan government would spend Rs22 million on 100 public schools in the first phase of a project for improving education facilities and ensuring revolutionary measures to provide best education to students in the province. The provincial government has planned to improve the sector with provision of furniture, sports, computer lab, equipment and other basic facilities in 100 public schools of the province, an official of the Balochistan government said while talking to APP. “In the first phase of the project, Rs22 million will be spent in the current financial year,” he said, adding every school would be provided computers, smart writing boards, library books, scientific equipment, and internet facility. He added the Balochistan government had decided to upgrade 53 middle schools to high school and 53 primary schools would be awarded the status of middle school this year.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 20th, 2020.