| The Directorate
of Education has established a network of 27 Schools in various
districts of Punjab, from Rahimyar Khan in the South to Rawalpindi
in the North. These Schools are situated in 13 different Districts
and provide free education to more than 18,000 boys and girls upto
middle, secondary and higher secondary levels. Not only education
is provided absolutely free of any charges, the Directorate of Education
also provides uniform, shoes, stationery, books school bags and
transport to the children of industrial workers. During the last
three years the Board spent Rs.148.8 million to provide these items.
The Directorate of Education is currently establishing fully equipped
computer labs in its schools for providing computer education to
the students.
The Directorate
of Education continues to expand its coverage by upgrading the existing
schools to higher levels of education and by establishing new schools.
BACK
GROUND
Established in 1986
under PESSI
| Number of schools |
08 |
| Number of staff |
100 |
| Students Strength |
800 |
PROVISION
OF SERVICES
Through its
WW Schools, Directorate of Education provides workers children with
the following free of cost services:-
| Uniforms |
| Syllabus books |
| Notebooks |
| Stationery |
| Computer Labs. |
| Science labs. |
| Transportation |
EXISTING
STRENGTH
(SCHOOL)
| Schools |
27 |
| Going to be |
32 |
| Teaching Staff |
784 |
| Non Teaching Staff |
429 |
| Workers Children |
14919 |
| Private Children |
3666 |
| Total No. of Students |
18485 |
Salient Features
of Education
|
Standardization
of the educational institutions |
|
Specially designed curriculum |
|
Special emphasis on co-curricular
activities |
|
Character building of students |
|
State of the art computer labs |
|
A well equipped library |
|
Efficient monitoring |
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