LAHORE: Punjab Higher Education Minister Syed Raza Ali Gillani has said that co-curricular activities help develop intellectual ken of students and also promote self-confidence in them to show better performance in classrooms as well as in playgrounds.
He made these remarks while addressing a prize distribution ceremony at the Government Islamia Postgraduate College for Women, Cooper Road on Saturday. The ceremony was held to distribute prizes among position-holders of the chief minister’s speech and essay writing competitions.
In his address, Raza Gillani was of the view that speech and essay writing competition was proving very for students. “The competitions are part of government’s commitment to help students grow confidently. It will help students to exhibit their individual talents, which will help them excel in practical life,” he added. He congratulated the winning students and asked them to show equally better performance in their studies to help make Pakistan an ‘economic tiger.’ Later, the minister distributed prizes among students.
Separately, provincial ministers Syed Raza Ali Gillani and Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan jointly presided over a meeting at the Directorate of Staff Development on Saturday.
The meeting pondered over the agenda of keeping educational institutions totally safe and free from narcotics.
Punjab Education Foundation Managing Director Tariq Mahmood, representatives of school education and police departments attended the meeting. The meeting expressed its strong commitment to save students from drug abuse. The meeting decided that students should be fully sensitised to hazards of smoking and other harmful drugs. Police were asked to keep a close watch on the surroundings of educational institutes in the city. The provincial ministers told the meeting that the government was fully committed to making educational institutions free of drugs.
