Punjab Youth Festival providing equal opportunities: CM Punjab

Lahore, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said the introduction of the Punjab Youth Festival at union council level in all over the province is a good step that will not only help chase young talent at local level but also promote healthy activities in an organized way.

Talking to a youth delegation on Sunday, the chief minister said by holding Punjab Youth Festival, PML-N government had made a platform for providing equal opportunities to the citizens for displaying their abilities. Besides sports, Punjab Youth Festival had been made more interesting and popular by including the competitions of extracurricular activities in this mega event, he added.

Such events are important for the promotion of moderation and tolerance as well as removal of the extremism from the society where citizens can display their abilities by confirming their contribution without any judgment, the chief minister said.

The chief minister said new generation was a ray of hope for the country which had to put the society on the right direction. He further said whatever resources are spent for the education and training of builders of the nation, was not enough. He emphasized upon the youth to build such a Pakistan by entombing the system poisoned with corruption where honesty, trust and merit were sustained and no corrupt person could dare to loot the national resources.

Youth is the guarantee to bright future of Pakistan. Only those nations have made marvelous progress which prepared their young generation with latest knowledge and exploited all-out resources on them. Information technology has become an admitted fact and due to it, the world has become a global village so keeping in view its importance, the chief minister held.

Shahbaz Sharif said the Punjab government had taken revolutionary steps for promotion of information technology in the province and in the first phase, 125,000 laptops had been distributed among the talented students on merit basis in a transparent manner. He disclosed that Punjab government was also giving laptops to the special children during current financial year.

The chief minister said other provinces were also following the programmes of PML-N government launched for the youth which reflected their confidence in the successful ongoing programmes of the Punjab government.

The youth, while paying tributes to the chief minister on this occasion, said Shahbaz Sharif had taken extraordinary steps to raise the education sector. They said for the first time, laptops had been distributed among the students on merit basis.