UK Minister for International Development, Gareth Thomas has said that his government would provide a financial assistance for education and other social sectors. Inaugurating the construction of classrooms and verandah in Government Primary School for Boys in Chak No 119, Samana, under Citizens Community Board scheme, he said that the schemes relating to health, education and poverty reduction programme would be completed with this amount.
The basic focus of this aid would be on Punjab and NWFP provinces. He said that basically he himself belonged to the teaching profession so he felt a great pleasure in inaugurating this scheme.
He said that nothing was more important than the education. The students would improve their educational potential, which would ultimately prove helpful for their better career and enable them to earn a good living.
He said that this factor was of great importance for him that the local people had paid their share for the completion of this scheme and were involved in its completion with community participation spirit. He said that he had also been informed that District Nazim Faisalabad was taking a keen interest in the works of public welfare and was effectively cutting the red tape involved.
He said he hoped that the project completed here would prove to be a mile-stone not only for Faisalabad but also for the entire province. The UK Minister said that the British government was determined to achieve the targets of Millennium Development Programme and was committed to reducing poverty from all the countries.
He said that hundred percent enrolment at primary level would contribute towards achieving this objective. He said he was happy to learn from the District Nazim that all the children were going to school at primary level in one of the Union Councils of the district and by the year 2010, 100 percent literacy rate would be achieved in Faisalabad district.
District Nazim Chaudhrys Zahid Nazir said that the people of Faisalabad were grateful of the British government for providing huge amounts for the welfare of the district under FAUP and SPU programmes and said that Faisalabadites we would continue their efforts for the development of this district with the co-operation and assistance of Department for International Development.
Chairman CCB, Union Council No 179, Abdul Jabbar Javed, said in his speech that there was shortage of class rooms in the primary school and that the construction work of two rooms and verandah would be completed within six months' period with an estimated expenditure of Rs 461,000. He said that Rs 103,000 had been contributed by the residents of the village while the remaining amount of Rs 385,000 had been provided by the District Government under CCB programme.
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