A decision has been made to launch the Libraries on Wheels project in Lahore, aimed at bringing digital educational facilities directly to students through a fleet of specially equipped electric vehicles. According to official sources, 55 electric vehicles will be handed over to the Education Authority under this initiative, marking a notable step toward integrating mobile technology into how library and educational resources are delivered to students across the city.
Each electric vehicle under the project will come equipped with 22 tablets along with an LED screen, giving the mobile libraries the capacity to support small group digital learning sessions directly from the vehicle itself. Arrangements for charging these vehicles will be made available at schools, ensuring that the electric fleet can maintain consistent operation throughout the school day without requiring separate charging infrastructure elsewhere in the city. This setup allows the vehicles to function as self contained mobile classrooms, bringing tablet based digital resources to locations where dedicated computer labs or extensive library infrastructure may not already exist.
Each library vehicle is expected to serve approximately 100 schools, suggesting that the fleet has been designed to rotate across a wide network of educational institutions rather than being permanently stationed at any single location on an ongoing basis. This rotational model would allow the limited number of vehicles to extend digital educational access across a considerably larger number of schools than would be possible if each vehicle were assigned to serve only one or two institutions at a time, effectively multiplying the reach of the initial 55 vehicle fleet across the broader school network in the city.
In the initial phase, all 55 electric vehicles will be stationed at pilot schools, from where they will be used to provide library and digital educational facilities to students as the programme gets underway. This phased rollout suggests authorities are taking a measured approach to the project’s implementation, likely allowing the Education Authority to assess how the mobile library concept functions in practice before expanding its rotation across the full intended network of roughly 100 schools per vehicle. The initiative adds to a broader pattern of digital education programmes being introduced across Punjab, reflecting continued government interest in using technology enabled solutions to widen access to learning resources for students, particularly in schools that may otherwise lack sufficient library or digital infrastructure of their own.
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