Staff Reporter
Punjab Minister for Literacy & Non-Formal Basic Education Raja Rashid Hafeez has said that 1300 literacy centres have been set up by the literacy department in various backward areas of the province. He said that as many as 424216 deserving male and female children are getting primary as well as technical education in these centres
The Minister was talking to a representative delegation of civil society organizations which called on him at his office on Tuesday.
He apprised the delegation about various measures taken for the promotion of literacy at the grassroots and said that the literacy department has provided the facility of free education to the deserving students who could not get admissions in schools because of some reasons. The students are provided free education at their doorsteps, he added.
