Pakistan

PEF to start education plan for special children

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The pilot project will be launched from Lahore and it is expected that this educational `socialization' will sensitize normal people about needs of special persons around them.

Chairman Punjab Education Foundation Raja Muhammad Anwar stated this while talking to a 5-member delegation of office bearers of different NGOs associated with welfare of special persons at his residence on Sunday.

Anwar said the Punjab government was also working hard to strengthen institutions of special education in public sector and informed that Rs 35 million would be spent on setting up of computer labs in 37 special education institutions in the province.

Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2011