Lahore: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has announced free education in the highest educational institution for the children of industrial and mining workers. The children of workers will be admitted to 7 campuses of COMSAT University, and the fees will be paid by the Punjab government.
On the instructions of Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif, the Punjab Workers Welfare Fund has invited applications from workers.
In Punjab, children of workers will be able to study at COMSAT University, Islamabad, sub-campuses Abbottabad, Wah Cantt, Attock, Lahore, Sahiwal and Vehari. Children of disabled and deceased workers will also be provided free education at COMSAT University.
Registered workers can submit applications by July 9 in the Islamabad campus, July 17 in the Lahore campus, August 4 in Wah Cantt and Abbottabad, August 11 in Vehari and Attock and August 15 in Sahiwal.
The application form must be accompanied by a copy of the worker’s national identity card, registered certificate, student’s national identity card or B form, social security card or old age benefit. The children of workers will apply online on the Comsat University website and submit the documents in the admission form.
Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif says that workers are the crown of our head, we will provide every facility including education and health, we are opening the doors of higher educational institutions for the children of every worker in Punjab, no child in Punjab, whether he is a child of a worker, will be deprived of education now, we are taking such historic steps for the welfare of workers that are unprecedented in the past.
