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Punjab govt to privatise educational institutions
Rawalpindi, Dec 06, 2007: The government has prepared a plan to privatise all the educational institutions
including government owned medical institutes of province in order to pay back
loan of Rs27.98 billion for the upgradation of these institutes. Sources told in
this regard that provincial government had obtained a loan of Rs27.98 billion
from World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the upgradation and
welfare of 63,000 government schools and approximately 424 colleges across the
Punjab.
Sources further said that the provincial government has prepared
comprehensive plan to privatise these educational institutions to return these
loans to aforementioned financial organisations. All these institutes would be
handed over to different NGO's and the persons claiming of their ownership,
sources concluded.
FJWU annual competitions commence today
RAWALPINDI: A three-day Inter-Programme Competition, arranged by
the Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi (FJWU), will start today at the
university campus. Students of all departments will participate in different
competitions. The News
15 students injured as IUB bus overturns
BAHAWALPUR: Over two dozen students were injured, four of them
seriously, when a bus of Islamia University overturned here on
Wednesday.
Reports said the bus, packed to capacity, was on its way to
varsity's Baghdadul Jadid campus from the old one when the driver lost control
over it.
The emergency service, 1122, shifted the injured to the
Bahawalpur Victoria Hospital, where a large number of panicked parents and
teachers reached immediately.
According to varsity's Senior Medical
Officer Dr Usman Cheema, most of the injured students were discharged after they
were provided necessary medical assistance, while four of them were admitted to
the hospital in serious condition.
It is learnt the university
administration cancelled the Wednesday's papers of the ongoing mid-term
examinations. Dawn
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