DG KHAN
\nPunjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif inaugurated the country\u2019s first and the largest school nutrition programme in the province by personally distributing milk packs among children in every class at the Government Primary School, here on Thursday.
\nShe distributed milk cartons among students at their seats and opened the milk packs for the children and supervised the consumption. She asked students their names and praised them, and sat amongst them, leaving them surprised and overjoyed. CM Maryam Nawaz inquired about the children\u2019s health and education and asked them about the problems they faced in their studies.
\nA student told the CM about his father\u2019s unemployment, and she directed the authorities concerned to arrange for a job for the young student\u2019s father. Provincial Education Minister Rana Sikandar Hayat briefed the CM abour the pilot project.
\n\u201cChief Minister\u2019s School Nutrition Programme\u201d has been launched in three districts of south Punjab including Dera Ghazi Khan, Rajanpur, and Muzaffargarh.
\nOver 400,000 students suffering from malnutrition would be given nutritious milk packs under the programme. Students in 3,527 schools in Dera Ghazi Khan, Rajanpur and Muzaffargarh would receive a 175-milliliter milk pack daily. Students will return empty packs of milk at school. Revenue from recycling the empty packs will be spent on the respective schools, he explained.
\nStudents were given an opportunity to have photographs with CM Maryam Nawaz, and she also gave them autographs. Later, upon arrival at the Commissioner\u2019s Office, Maryam Nawaz was saluted by a smartly dressed Border Military Police squad.
\nSenior Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb, provincial ministers Azma Zahid Bukhari, Rana Sikandar Hayat, MPA Saniya Ashiq, Nosheen Adnan, Sher Ali Gorchani, Special Assistant Zeeshan Malik, Chief Secretary Zahid Akhtar Zaman, schools secretary, commissioner, RPO and other officials were also present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DG KHAN Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif inaugurated the country\u2019s first and the largest school nutrition programme in the province by personally distributing milk packs among children in every class at the Government Primary School, here on Thursday. She distributed milk cartons among students at their seats and opened the milk packs for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-429375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n