LAHORE, Nov 22: The City District Government will spend Rs150 million provincial government grant on the provision of missing facilities at its educational institutions during the current financial year, announced Nazim Mian Amer Mahmood.

At the prize distribution ceremony of the second annual district Naat, Iqbal’s poetry recitation and declamation contests at Alhamra Art Centre, he said the CDG would also recommend grant of special allowances and facilities for those principals and headmasters of the schools and colleges, who would show exceptional results in the education board and university examinations.

He said the CDG had introduced a uniform academic calendar in all its educational institutions, transferred 700 teachers with their posts, and merged 179 of its 1,540 schools (with insufficient number of students and teachers) for achieving the internationally accepted teacher-student ratio.

He said a comprehensive schedule of sports and extracurricular activities had been prepared by the CDG. The annual district sports would now be held in April every year, he added. —Reporter