Govt fails to legislate on private schools: Education to get Rs9.29bn more
Of Punjab governments total Rs290 billion development budget, the government has allocated Rs1.5 billion for Tevta/Tevtec; Rs3 billion for the establishment of six new Daanish Schools; Rs3 billion for Punjab Millennium Development Goals programme; Rs2 billion for Punjab Education Endowment Fund to offer scholarships to talented students; Rs7.5 billion for Punjab Education Foundation; Rs1.5 billion for internship programmes; and Rs500 million for Punjab Technology University.
Under the Punjab Education Sector Reforms Project, the government has provided Rs10.4 billion for disbursement of non-salary budgets to schools, stipends to girls, free textbooks and management of public sector schools through school councils. This amount also includes a block allocation of Rs3.5 billion as additional conditional grant for non-salary budget of schools in nine pilot districts of Punjab.
The Punjab government intends that these funds will help school administration/school management councils to provide better services to children in schools.
Responding to massive demand to bring the private sector educational institutions under governments monitoring, the Punjab government had (in 2012-13 budget) announced that all private sector educational institutions schools, colleges, professional colleges and universities that charge more than Rs5,000 fee per month would allocate at least 10 per cent seats for students belonging to non-affording under privilege class of the society on merit.
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