Office bearers of Punjab Educational Foundation seek government support amid COVID-19 pandemic.
Interview by, Khalid Sabtain;
JHANG,(Parliament Times): To know when All Pakistan Schools and Colleges organisation was established, what are its objectives, what goals it achieved and what problems does this organisation face, we interviewed its president Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) Nadeem Zia, General, Secretary Chaudhry Muneer Hussain Sayyal,former presidents Ch. Ghulam Nabi,,Ran Muhammad Ashraf,Zulfiqar Haider Sialvi,members Board of Directors Hafiz Akhlaq Ahmed and other officials of its district Jhang body.
The office bearers of organization told to Khalid Sabtain Resident Editor (East Punjab) Daily Parliament Times an interview that it is financially transparent organization in which poor children from far away areas get education on discounted fee. Moreover, there is no increase in fee as well as ban on new admissions from years yet this. The budget should be shifted from the development budget to the salary budget and the budget should be increased to Rs 30 billion. The Chief Minister’s impartial report was also in favor of our PRF schools organization is deprived off any kind of support from government and run its affairs with help of British organisations charity. They added that if government could help them with salaries and building rents during current COVID pandemic, , Payment should be made according to SIS data. New entry should be allowed The codes of PEF schools should be declared as registration numbers, Reasonable increase in fees. They could secure futures of financially deprived students from various districts of PUNJAB.
Further, they demanded other regulations from government in order for their affairs to run smoothly.