An assessment test of class three students of PEF will be held in March:MD Tariq Mahmood

Lahore: An assessment test of class three students of Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) will be held in different districts of the province in the month of March. This test will be conducted through third party to maintain transparency and neutrality. The purpose of this test is to examine the educational standards to further improve the quality of PEF sponsored education.

Managing Director, Punjab Education Foundation, Tariq Mahmood said this while presiding over coordination meeting at head office on Wednesday. Deputy MD (Ops.) Tariq Rafiq and Program Directors also attended the meeting. The meeting reviewed in detail the pace of progress on different programs and expressed the satisfaction that this has been tremendously benefitting the children belonging to the indigent strata.

MD PEF said that the project of giving free education to the children of brick-kiln families would go a long way in alleviating poverty and helping these hapless families to improve their economic prospects through the education of their children who will get totally free education and other benefits in PEF partner schools. This project is part of PEF’s institutional vision to help the needy communities to have equal access to education without being burdened. He said that boards’ registration and examination fee of PEF partner schools’ students enrolled in secondary classes have been waived of to save them from any financial burden.

Meanwhile, Managing Director Balochistan Education Foundation (BEF) Prof. Dr. Abdul Tawab Khan today visited the PEF head office and met with the MD PEF Tariq Mahmood and other officials. On the occasion, he was briefed about the working and future vision of the PEF under ‘Parho Punjab, Barho Punjab’ program of the Punjab Government. He was told that PEF is sponsoring school education of 1.9 million deserving students through a network of 6058 partner schools in 36 districts of the province.

MD PEF said that the Punjab Inclusive Education Project (PIEP) has been launched in seven selected districts to provide free inclusive education opportunities to such differently-abled students. Similarly, ten mobile schools are also opened in Bahawalpur division for the nomad families of Cholistan. We also have launched early childhood education project to motivate toddlers for studies, he further told.

MD BEF, Dr. Tawab paid rich tributes to the Chief Minister Punjab Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif for arranging education of six thousand Balochistan province students in the Punjab institutions and waiving of their fee as well. He also apprised the meeting about educational role of BEF in Balochistan province.