- Over 0.1m laptops to be distributed among talented students in 4th phase
Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that opponents of public welfare projects are tantamount to opposing country’s development and prosperity as the elite classes don’t want the fate of poor to be changed for better. He was addressing a ceremony of 4th Phase of Laptop Distribution held at Aiwan-e-Iqbal today (Thursday).
Likewise, remaining indifferent from the needs of underprivileged children they only want best education facilities for their own children so they could excel well in their career ending up as Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers Judges and Generals whereas talent of children of poor to go in vain, he said.
Shehbaz said, “I haven’t chosen the title of Khadim-e-Punjab for political point scoring but for serving people and I will always abide by it.”
Those criticising welfare projects include Imran Khan on one hand, who has blamed me that I offered him 10 billion in Dubai and at the other side its Zardari who pushed the country towards energy crises and now claims that CPEC project was his brainchild.
He said that Imran Khan’s allegations of offering him 10 billion through a friend were a total lie; he is setting records of impeachment and negative politic.
The chief minister said that we have provided all-out resources to empower our youth and has distributed 03 Lakh 10 thousand laptops before at immaculate legitimacy premise while 01 Lakh 15 thousand to be distributed now among talented students in the 4th phase.
The CM congratulated the laptop winners and said that they definitely have burnt midnight oil and worked honestly. He said that Punjab has promoted merit culture denying all bamboozling and boti-mafia. He said that merit and ‘Cho Lo Asmaan’ are two wheels of the same vehicle.
He said that he rejected the suggestion of giving old laptops to students because I want them to equip with the latest trend so we are providing them with Dell i7 laptops.
The CM said that when he initiated this scheme back in 2011, foes tried to malign it by blaming that I am trying to purchase their votes but our good intentions prevailed as we think that laptops look much better in the hands of youth rather than guns.
Shehbaz Sharif said Kisan Package of Rs 100 billion is being executed by the latest technology and 700 Police stations were also being computerised for smooth flow of official dealings. All this was made conceivable due to the steps taken by the government to promote information technology.
We are determined to provide every child with a quality education and today the students from less privileged families are acquiring higher education in international universities at government expense, he added.
He said that people who criticised Orange Line Train and Metro Bus because they didn’t want the general public to enjoy a comfortable and economic ride. They had tried to make it controversial by saying that it will damage national heritage buildings but we have submitted experts report to Supreme Court which will nullify all these blames, he claimed.
PEEF scholars while expressing their views at the ceremony paid tribute to Shehbaz Sharif for his revolutionary steps in the field of education.
Provincial Ministers Raza Ali Gillani, Ayesha Ghaus Pasha, Special Assistant Malik Mohammad Ahmed, vice-chairman of Punjab Educational Endowment Fund (PEEF), chief secretary, parliamentarians, vice chancellors, parents and a large number of students attended the event.
