Children’s Library Complex to be made state-of-the-art model

LAHORE: On the directions of School Education Minister Rana Sikandar Hayat, the School Education Department (SED) Punjab has decided to make the Children’s Library Complex a state-of-the-art model.

The education minister has directed the Children’s Library management to adapt the complex to the interest of children as well as the general public. In this regard, he also asked to prepare the action plan in a week and make the Children’s Library a sustainable model.

While presiding over a meeting held at the Children’s Library Complex, Rana Sikandar Hayat instructed to launch IT programmes in the complex equipped with modern technology and align the activities with the interest of both children and adults.

He also advised that the Children’s Library activities should be made attractive for all educational institutions, including religious seminaries.

The minister also directed the officials to prepare an annual calendar for activities for the children on a daily basis and further ask to work on making the complex as a business model and outreach membership campaign should be conducted under public private partnership so that more and more children could benefit from the Children’s Library Complex.

Earlier, the minister was briefed regarding the space tunnel in the Children’s Library while he also expressed his determination to make the Children’s Library the top performing library of Pakistan.

He also directed the effective use of mass media platforms for the awareness of activities of the Complex to the children and the general public.