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MULTAN, Oct 20: The Punjab government will upgrade 77 primary schools to middle level besides setting up 10 new middle schools in various districts.
A notification issued here on Saturday said that 20 schools would be upgraded in Sialkot, 17 in Vehari, eight in Narowal, seven in Kasur, six in Leiah, three in Toba Tek Singh, two each in Gujrat, Faisalabad, Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakpattan, Multan, and one each in Rawalpindi, Hafizabad, Gujranwala, Mandi Bahauddin, Hafizabad and Lodhran.
It said in Multan, School No 19 MR and Boys Primary School, Lahorwala, would be elevated to middle schools.
Regarding new middle schools, it said four would be established in Leiah, three in Multan, one each in Jhelum, Attock and Pakpattan.
The middle schools to be set up in Multan would include the Government Middle School, Garhwala; the Government Middle School, Makhdoom Rasheed; and the Government Middle School, Qadirpur Rawan, the notification said.
RESULTS: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Multan, on Saturday announced the results of the second annual matriculation examination, 2001.
Out of 9,559 students, 5,810 have been declared as successful with a pass percentage of 68.8.
AFTERNOON CLASSES: The literacy rate in the country will be doubled if afternoon classes begin in all primary schools of the Punjab.
This was stated by provincial social welfare minister Ms Shaheen Attiqur Rehman while talking to representatives of different NGOs here on Saturday.
She said the infrastructure was already available and NGOs would only have to hire teachers to run afternoon classes. The NGOs, she said, should make integrated plans so that the desired literacy rate could be achieved.
MEETING: The second meeting of the Saddar tehsil council was held here on Saturday under the chairmanship of its Naib Nazim Malik Muhammad Abbas Rawn.
Addressing union council Nazims and Naib Nazims, Saddar tehsil Nazim Mujtaba Gilani said that they should work collectively for the welfare of the people.
He urged the government to fix maximum support price for cotton as it would help improve living standard of poor farmers. —Nouman
