ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT+APP): Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif
on Wednesday terming children the country’s future said the
government was focusing on providing them high-standard education
and best facilities at their learning places.
“With best educational reforms and improved building
infrastructure, we want the children to get a conducive environment
at their schools,” the Prime Minister said in his address here at
the handing over fleet of 200 buses for the schools of Islamabad
under his Education Reforms Programme.
The Prime Minister said Islamabad would be made a model city
in terms of standard of education and provision of facilities at
schools.
“Schools should be a place where the children could enjoy
their learning experience in their quest for knowledge and the
government is working on the same strategy,” he told the audience
comprising school students and teachers.
Nawaz Sharif said 422 buses would be provided for the
capital’s 422 schools and directed that next fleet of 200 buses be
arranged at the earliest.
He said the provision of buses would facilitate the movement
of students to and from their schools and stressed provision of
buses to girl schools in urban and rural areas on priority.
The Prime Minister also proposed construction of a bypass road
at Bhara Kahu in Islamabad’s suburbs to ease the movement of
students accessing their schools in capital.
He said improvement was being made in Islamabad’s streets with
a focus on cleanness, adding that Islamabad in coming times would
become one of the world’s beautiful cities.
The Prime Minister handed over keys of buses to students of
different schools and also cut a cake shaped as the yellow school
bus.
He inspected the bus and also took a test ride along with
children.
Earlier, State Minister for Capital Administration and
Development Division Tariq Fazal Chaudhry in his speech said the
Pakistan of 2018 would be much improved in terms of education and
health sectors as compared to previous years.
Daughter of Prime Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif said new
schools would be opened in capital this year.
She mentioned that besides improvement in physical
infrastructure of schools such as libraries and information
technology laboratories, provision of quality education would be
ensured.
She said an experienced educationist had been hired for
consultancy on education reforms.