Schools to be made a place of best learning experience: PM

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday terming children the country’s future said the government was focusing on providing them high-standard education and best facilities at their learning places.

“With best educational reforms and improved building infrastructure, we want the children to get a conducive environment at their schools,” the Prime Minister said in his address here at the handing over fleet of 200 buses for the schools of Islamabad under his Education Reforms Programme.

The Prime Minister said Islamabad would be made a model city in terms of standard of education and provision of facilities at schools.

“Schools should be a place where the children could enjoy their learning experience in their quest for knowledge and the government is working on the same strategy,” he told the audience comprising school students and teachers.

Nawaz Sharif said 422 buses would be provided for the capital’s 422 schools and directed that next fleet of 200 buses be arranged at the earliest.

He said the provision of buses would facilitate the movement of students to and from their schools and stressed provision of buses to girl schools in urban and rural areas on priority.