Education, health, women empowerment vital factors for growth: Dr Arif Alvi.

LAHORE -- President Dr Arif Alvi said on Monday that education, health, welfare and women empowerment were the most important factors for a proper growth of any society. He said this while visiting the department of special needs in the University of Management and Technology here. First Lady Samina Alvi also accompanied the president. Giving an example of China, the President said that China had made enormous progress through improving its education and health sectors.

It was very unfortunate that there were almost more than 20 million out of school children in Pakistan and it was need of the hour to enroll them, he added. He said it was highly important to promote the concept of inclusion in the society. "If we look around, almost every family has a child who was deprived of any one of the five basic senses", he observed. Dr Arif Alvi said there was a need to change attitudes of the society towards differently-abled persons and jobs should be created to match their abilities. He said, "Time is coming when no nation can make progress without ensuring inclusiveness in its society." He said...