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| 100 English-medium schools for workers' children planned |
| 2002-07-29 |
| The Federal Minister for Labour and Overseas Pakistanis, Owais Ghani, has said 100 English-medium model schools will be established by the Workers Welfare Board (WWB) across the country in the current year where the children of the poor workers will get free education. He said at present 10 schools in Punjab, eight in NWFP, four each in Balochistan and Sindh provinces had been set up by the WWB and the annual expenditure of each school was about Rs4 million to Rs5 million which had been provided from the workers welfare fund (WWF). Not an awfully large expenditure, but it provides an alternative to the madrassahs. If nobody kills Perv in the next year, the program will probably expand while he tries to counterweight the influence of the madrassahs. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |