Daycare centres

Published July 31, 2006

LAHORE, July 30: Punjab Labour Minister Syed Akhtar Hussain Rizvi has said that daycare centres will be established for the children of working women at all major industrial areas in the province at a cost of Rs30 million.

Disclosing this while presiding over a departmental meeting here, the minister said that the first daycare centre would be established in the industrial areas of Lahore and Fisalabad on a public-private partnership basis. The centres would have necessary arrangements for the children.

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