FAISALABAD: Special Advisor to CM Punjab for Sports Malik Umar Farooq said the Punjab government was taking effective steps for quality education in schools.

He said that maximum enrollment of children at schools was the need of hour. He was distributing uniforms and schoolbags among children during enrollment campaign at Govt Primary School, Chak No 92-GB.

Assistant Commissioner Saddar Umar Maqbool and officers of district education authority were also present on the occasion. Malik appealed to the parents to get enrollment of their children at schools so that literacy rate in the province could be increased.

He said that an educated society was a guarantee of a bright future and social development. AC Umar Maqbool said that coordination would be extended to tehsil administration for making enrollment campaign successful. Plantation was also made on the occasion under the Clean and Green programme.