Aslam vows to promote technical education.

LAHORE -- Provincial Industries and Trade Minister Mian Aslam Iqbal chaired an important meeting of Punjab Board of Technical Education (PBTE) at the PBIT office on Tuesday in which approval for the budget of PBTE for the fiscal year 2020: 21 was granted.

On the occasion 13 other points of agenda were also given approval in the meeting.

The decision to reduce 40 percent examination fee of the students of DAE Commerce Metric Tech and Metric Vocational 2020 for getting promotion without taking examinations to be held under the board was also endorsed during the meeting.

The amendment in the Education Technical Board ActOrdinance 1962 was also granted approval for promoting students in the next class without holding their examinations due to corona pandemic.

The Minister while addressing the participants emphasized that it is the dire need of time to promote technical education in order to overcome poverty unemployment and financial...