FAISALABAD, Feb 29: The Punjab government has provided 632,700 books to the Education Department for free distribution among the students upto primary class students across the district under the Chief Minister's Literacy Programme.
A source in the Education department told Dawn here on Sunday that the provincial government had started supplying books to the department through Tehsil Municipal Administrations so that books could be provided to students immediately.
He said that TMAs had sent their separate proposals through department's EDOs to the provincial government with the request of required number of books. Accepting their request, the government had started dispatching the books from Sunday (yesterday).
As per demand of the TMAs, some 83,671 Qaidas, 89,430 books for class I, 84,033 for Class II, 71,388 for Class III, 62,995 for Class IV (Part-I), 62,995 for Class IV (Part-II), 53,400 for Class V (Part-I) and 53,400 for Class V (Part-II) were handed over to the officials concerned of the six tehsils - City, Sadar, Samundri, Jaranwala, Tandlianwala and Chak Jhumra.
These books would be provided free of cost to about 500,000 students in the district upto primary class, source claimed. The Punjab chief minister had launched a Literacy Programme for students announcing free education with syllabi. The implementation on free tuition had been started about six months ago under the literacy programme.
EMERGENCY WARD: A 100-bed emergency ward equipped with all modern facilities will be set up in the Allied Hospital with the financial assistance of local philanthropists.
This was stated by the Board of Management Chairman, Punjab Medical College, Mian Muhammad Latif, while talking to newsmen here on Sunday. He said that emergency wards of the Allied and DHQ Hospitals were ill-equipped and needed improvement to provide swift medical aid to emergency treatment seekers. Presently, the so-called emergency wards were only providing services like the first-aid, bandage and stitching.
Virtually, he said the emergency wards lacked all basic medical facilities, including blood, oxygen, modern equipment, trained para-medical staff and nurses and highly qualified surgeons. Moreover, the buildings of emergency blocks of both the hospitals were also in a shambles and gave an ugly look, he conceded. In addition, there was no provision to save the patients from the vagaries of the weather.
COMMITS SUICIDE: A girl committed suicide by taking poisonous tablets in Chak 445-GB on Sunday. Guddi (18) quarrelled with her family members over some domestic dispute. She died on her way to hospital.
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