LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday arranged a ceremony to honour position holders in the examination of matriculation at his Model Town residence.
He distributed laptops and cheque of Rs 100,000 to each student, and announced to bear all future educational expenditures of the position holders. “These talented students are our heroes who achieved prominent positions through their hard work, ability and capability,” he said.
He said that the provincial government would bear the position holder’s educational expenses through Punjab Education Endowment Fund. He congratulated the students, their parents, teachers and principals and said that these students were the shining stars of Pakistan and that every goal could be achieved through hard work.
He said that the Pakistan of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal was not where children of the elite could only study while those with low resources were deprived of it. He said that the time had come that a revolutionary policy for equipping the nation’s youth with education and steps be taken for reducing the gulf between the poor and the rich.
He said the aim of holding a simple ceremony was to bring the nation’s heroes in front of the nation itself, while a big ceremony would soon be held for awarding prizes to them. The chief minister saluted the of head mistress of the schools of two girls for motivating their parents to send them to school and bearing expenditure of their education from their own pocket and appreciated their attitude.
The position holding students, their parents, Higher Education Commission officials, chairmen of different education boards, Education Department officials and several columnists also attended the ceremony.
