MULTAN, March 18th:At least 110 computers have so far been stolen from the 70 schools of Southern Punjab due to non-provision of information Technology staff and security guards.Similarly buses provided to Government College for women Multan and other colleges by the Federal as well as Provincial Governments are grounded due to non-availability of drivers. Government did not sanctioned the posts of drivers nor funds for the feul.Sources said that Hard-disks, Ram, and mother boards of high quality were also stolen from the IT laboratories with the criminal connivance of the staff. Though Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif had claimed that more than two million students in Punjab would receive computer education with the help of NComputing's ultra low-cost virtual desktops but his dream could not come true due to non-cooperation of bureaucracy and teaching staff. These laboratories are lying closed since their inauguration and not a single student could get IT education from these laboratories. These computer laboratories were set up in more than 4,000 government- secondary and higher secondary schools.Each school was furnished with a 15-seat computer lab, which is to run on three desktop PCs and 12 NComputing virtual desktops that will be connected to the PCs. In addition to reducing purchase costs, electricity usage for these labs will be 90 per cent lower than a traditional all-PC computer lab. Additional Programme Director Joudat Ayaz of the IT Labs project said that it was a sustainable and environment-friendly project with very low recurring costs. "In the overall context of the project, we are saving over Rs 1.8 billion, which is almost 36 per cent of the total project cost."As far as the electricity savings are concerned, the Punjab government would save another over Rs 10 million per month as the NComputing devices use only one watt of electricity as compared to 110 watts or more for a typical PC, he added.