Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Monday that the Student Green Card Scheme, launched in Lahore, had been started to provide affordable travelling facilities to students.
He said the scheme would be launched in six more cities from the first week of August.
He was presiding over a meeting held with regard to the Student Green Card Scheme on Monday. Special Assistant Zaeem Hussain Qadri, Lahore Transport Company chairman Khawaja Ahmed Hassan, Punjab Information Technology Board Chairman Dr Omer Saif, Higher Education and Schools secretaries and other officers attended the meeting.
The chief minister said the Punjab government was pursuing a comprehensive strategy for providing education facilities and equipping students with education.
He said launching the Green Card Scheme for providing concessionary travelling facilities to students was a step in this direction. He said after Lahore, Student Green Card Schemes would be launched in Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Multan, Gujranwala, Sialkot and Bahawalpur in August. He directed that a plan with regard to launching Green Card Schemes, fixing fares, provision of buses and their routes be submitted to him within two days.
The chief executive officer of Lahore Transport Company said as many as 28,000 students had gone to the website on the first day of the launch of the scheme. He said the district government would also issue cards in other cities.
He said, initially, the Lahore Transport Company would print 50 cards for each city while the district government would print the remaining green cards. He said students wanting a green card should submit their application forms at their colleges.
The colleges will send these forms to the concerned DCO office, he said.
The DCO’s office will send the cards back to the colleges from where the students can pick them up.
He said the Punjab Information Technology Board will launch a website for the convenience of students of other districts.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 10th, 2012.
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Yea u r right i agree with u.
@Amjad: Yea u r right.I agree with u.
A good initiative by the government of Punjab. Shows why the Punjab is still the most stable and well developed province in the country.