LAHORE ( HAFEEZ REPORT )
Provincial Minister for Higher Education, Syed Raza Ali Gillani has said the process of distribution of 115000 laptops among universities’ students would commence from March 13. In the beginning, public sector universities’ students would be given laptops according to the laid-down criteria and merit. However, the Punjab government has also decided to give five thousand laptops to the talented and deserving students of private universities so that they could equally benefit from this beneficial scheme aimed at improving access of low-income families’ students to the digital world. He said this while presiding over a departmental meeting at Civil Secretariat on Wednesday.
Secretary Higher Education Department Naseem Nawaz and representatives of private universities and Punjab Higher Education Commission attended the meeting. The meeting pondered over the distribution of laptops in private universities’ students and observed that merit and transparency would be fully ensured.
Raza Gillani said that provision of laptops to the private universities’ students is another ‘first’ of the Punjab government, adding that this would help the students to improve their access to the latest knowledge-trends. He further said that latest top of the line, I-7 laptops have been procured for the students.
Meanwhile, Higher Education Minister Raza Gillani hosted the visit of Korean delegation to the Lahore Museum today and briefed them about rich historical and socio-cultural dimensions of Pakistani society.