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Monday, October 12, 2015 - Lahore—The Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) will continue to provide all-out support and assistance to the 75 partner schools in Cholistan area of Bahawalpur division for arranging good quality education to the students enrolled in these schools.

Chairman, Punjab Education Foundation, Engr. Qamar u Islam Raja stated this during his inspection of various PEF partner schools in Cholistan. These schools were set up by the Cholistan Development Authority and adopted by the PEF to provide gratis education to the students who mostly belongs to the impecunious strata.

He said that as a result of continued support and patronage provided by this foundation to the Cholistan Development Authority, the number of students in the community schools has reached to more than 5600; adding that it has also encouraged girls education in the vast Cholistan desert where it is difficult for the parents to send their tender-age children to far away schools for want of resources.

This foundation is committed to spread the light of knowledge in nook and corner of the province and it is satisfying that PEF is playing a leading role in education-promotion in the southern Punjab districts. It has also strengthened the low-cost private schools and helped them to provide best education to their students, he added.

He further said that the proposal of mobile schooling for nomad communities of Cholistan will also be considered to arrange free education for children of such communities. He said that PEF has arranged elaborate teachers training mechanism for the teachers of these schools so that the students could get quality education and pointed out that their salaries are also increased after this PEF-CDA partnership. We are providing free text books, as well.

Besides PEF additional director (south) Mazhar Abbas, CDA’s director (admin) Rana Shahid Nadeem and literacy assistant Mukhtar were also present on the occasion.

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