Missing facilities: Education spending to be focused on girls’ schools in Punjab

LAHORE:

The Schools Education Department is to provide drinking water, electricity, toilets and boundary walls at 2,500 government primary and elementary girls’ schools all over the province and boys’ schools in southern Punjab as part of its development programme for 2013-14.

The missing facilities project takes up Rs7.5 billion of the Rs15.5 billion allocation for the development plan.

Qaiser Rasheed, the deputy secretary for planning and budget at the department, said that

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