PEF schools - Newspaper - DAWN.COM
PERVAIZ Elahi, during his tenure as Punjab chief minister, had initiated the Punjab Education Foundation (PEF), an autonomous body working through a board of directors only answerable to the chief minister. This is the largest public-private partnership institution operating anywhere in the world that is imparting quality education to the poor. The success of the PEF has been acknowledged by the World Bank and the Department for International Development. Owing to its success, on becoming the chief minister, Shehbaz Sharif enhanced its scope. At the end of Elahi’s tenure, 350,000 children w...
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