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India: Public Service is Govt’s Priority: CM
Source: nation.com.pk
Source Date: Monday, January 24, 2011
Focus: Electronic and Mobile Government, Citizen Engagement, Internet Governance
Country: India
Created: Jan 23, 2011

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday said public service and provision of basic amenities to the masses was the agenda of the government and all out resources were being utilised for this purpose.

According to a handout issued on Sunday, he said the mobile units were being provided to the backward areas people of the province as provision of modern health facilities and Daanish Schools were also being established for extending quality education to the masses of Punjab.
Presiding over a high level meeting regarding provision of education and health facilities for rural areas of Punjab, he said Punjab government was implementing a comprehensive strategy for generation of job opportunities and accelerating economic activities in the province. “The projects for the provision of education, health and basic facilities to the people are being executed expeditiously,” he added. Senator
Shahbaz said only people had the right over national resources and therefore, every penny of public money was being utilised in a transparent manner in providing basic facilities to the masses of Punjab. He said the revolutionary projects of establishment of Daanish schools in backward areas would open new avenues of progress in these regions and these educational institutions would result in the improvement of education sector as well as literacy rate.
The CM said that setting up of Punjab Education Endowment Fund for providing assistance to the students, facing financial problems in pursuing their academic activities had left a positive impact on education sector and talented and deserving students of all the four provinces inclusive of Azad Kashmir were benefiting from this fund which had also strengthened national solidarity.
He said that provision of IT labs with internet facility in more than 4,000 schools of the province and encouragement of students showing good performance in examinations had also yielded positive results.
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