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LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday said the PML-N led Punjab government has started unique programmes to empower the youth while investment to the tune of billions of rupees has been made to enable the youth to study the latest fields of knowledge.

While talking to a delegation of the youth, here on Tuesday, Shehbaz maintained that more than 60 percent of the country’s population consists of the youth who are a ray of hope for national development. He said the journey of development will be accelerated by empowering the youth.

Shehbaz said the government is moving rapidly towards achieving the goal of educating two million youth in different professional skills and added that hundreds and thousands of students have been given technical education under the Punjab Skills Development Program who are now earning their livelihood in an honourable way. He said that merit reigns supreme in the Punjab and its supremacy has been ensured in all the sectors of life.

Shehbaz maintained that the journey of national development can be fulfilled by making the youth as an engine of development and it is satisfying that the PML-N government has taken far-reaching steps in this regard. The steps taken for bringing improvements in the education sector have yielded positive results and no dearth of resources will ever hamper the process of education and training of the youth in future as well, he added.

According to him, new generation is the custodian of the future of Pakistan. That’s why; historic steps have been taken by the government to secure the future of the youth. In this regard, a revolutionary project namely computer labs has been completed with speed. Due to this project, the younger generation is fast equipping itself with the latest trends of knowledge to adjust to the changing needs of the time. Similarly, the government is also pursuing the wonderful project of distributing laptops among the talented students on merit.

He said that Punjab Educational Endowment Fund (PEEF) has been established to help continue the education of economically-deprived but bright students. A large number of students are benefiting from this educational fund which is indeed a historic step to empower the youth through education.