Wattoo for enforcing 1994 Education Act

LAHORE: Former Punjab Chief Minister Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo has criticised the PML-N government for not implementing the Punjab Compulsory Primary Education Act 1994.

In a statement issued on Friday, Wattoo, a senior PPP leader, said that PML-N government was spending billions of rupees on its publicity campaign but had no concern to the public issues as it wasted 22 golden years of the Punjab population by not implementing the Act of 1994.

He said that when he was the CM of Punjab, the provincial assembly had passed the Act under which it was compulsory for the children of school age to seek education and parents were bound to send them school under the law.

He added that the Act was vital in putting an end to child labour but the PML-N government merely spent the public money on its publicity campaign and didn’t bother to implement the Act.