LAHORE, Oct 24: Scholarships for technical education students will be doubled and a policy be devised to award cash prizes and offering them foreign tours.

This was announced by MNA Hamza Shahbaz at a laptop distribution ceremony for position holder students of Punjab Board of Technical Education institutions at Alhamra on Wednesday. He distributed 81 laptops.

He also announced that a committee comprising technical experts would be constituted to resolve problems of technical education institutions’ graduates with regard to seeking admission to engineering universities.

He said the monopoly of the rich on education and progress was no more tolerable. He said the Punjab government had extended all-out incentives to the poor and the middle class segments of society.

He said the archaic system of last 64 years was the real problem of Pakistan which needed to be uprooted. He said the new system could not be formulated without the cooperation of the youth.

He said Punjab government had set up an endowment fund worth Rs10 billion to end monopoly of the rich on education and progress, through which thousands of poor but intelligent boy and girl students were getting education.

Before Shahbaz’s era, he said, the position holders belonging to poor segments of the society could never think of foreign tours and hefty cash prizes. He said the capabilities of the youth had recently been proved in the Punjab Youth Festival during which young boys and girls broke 10 international records within four days.