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[h=1]KP sets 1.8m target for school enrolment[/h] PESHAWAR, Sept 8: Speakers at a function held in connection with the International Literacy Day on Sunday underlined the need for giving top priority to education to put the country on the path of peace and prosperity. The function was held at the government primary school for boys in Chughalpura here to mark the literacy day. District development advisory committee chairman Ishtiaq Urmer, officials of Elementary and Secondary Education (E&SE) Department and representatives of NGOs attended the function. The DDAC chief said that for the current year the provincial government had set a target of 1.8 million children for enrolment in schools and efforts would be made to achieve it. He urged the teachers to perform their duties with honesty, saying that the government would soon implement a policy of accountability of teachers on the basis of their performance. He said that a drive for enrolment of out of school children would start from Sept 10 and appealed to the parents and teachers to make the campaign a success. Mr Urmer said that poverty could be alleviated from the society through education. He said that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led provincial government was committed to introducing the curriculum in government schools which had been taught in top English medium schools. Additional secretary E&SE Qaisar Alam said that education was the right of every child and guaranteed in the constitution. He said that literacy rate, especially among girls, was very low in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and everyone had to play role to bring the out-of-school children to the educational institutions. He said that a province-wide enrolment drive would be started in Peshawar on Tuesday. He said that establishment of an independent monitoring unit was also on the cards to properly regulate affairs of the schools. Chief planning officer of the E&SE department, Rafiq Khattak, said that bio-metric system had been introduced in the education department and even secretary, additional secretary and other high-ups were required to pass through this electronic system of attendance in their offices. This (attendance system) would soon be introduced in schools to put an end to furloughs, he said and added that teachers showing good performance would be rewarded. Earlier, students of various schools presented tableaus, sung national songs and delivered speeches to highlight the importance of education. A walk was also held at the end of the function.
Chief Minister, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pervez Khattak, Thursday said that in the light of the vision of the chairman, Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) a uniform education system is being introduced in the province, which will begin from the upcoming academic year.
He expressed these views while talking to PTI's elected public representatives and office-bearers from Swat and Dir Upper here in his office. Senior officials of the provincial government were also present on the occasion. Terming class-based education system as foundation of classed based society, the chief minister said that the new education system would help abolish the difference of rich and the poor in the society. In the current education system, the children of rich people become politicians, bureaucrats, doctors and engineers while the children of the poor become only constables and clerks, which is sheer injustice and cruelty.
There is no country in the world where education is given two different languages with two or three different curriculum. But, unfortunately, it is only our country where this system was practised. He said that they are determined that they would change this system.
He further said that the practice of the transfers of schools' teachers would be abolished and attributed the consecutive transfers of teachers as basic cause of the declining standard in educational institutions. The chief minister also highlighted reforms introduced in the departments of health, revenue, excise, public health engineering, irrigation, agriculture, tourism and others and urged the elected public representatives, party office-bearers and government officials for working in shape of a team for the implementation of this agenda of change in their areas concerned.
The chief minister said that the present provincial government is establishing an independent, autonomous accountability commission in the province, which will carry out indiscriminate accountability. The Accountability Commission will be fully independent and autonomous, which on the complaint of a common man will conduct proceedings even against the chief minister. He said that they do not believe in political victimisation in the name of accountability. The clean, fair and impartial accountability system will abolish financial corruption and the practice of bad governance in the province.
The chief minister also told the public representatives about the 90 days performance of the provincial government, change and progress on implementation of the reformative agenda, directives to departments and other matters and took them into confidence. The chief minister while expressing his resolve for bringing change and reforms as per manifesto and electoral commitments made by the party in the elections urged the party workers to play their due role in the implementation of the agenda of change in their respective districts and extend full co-operation to provincial government in this regard.
He directed the party office-bearers for establishment of complaint cell at district level to monitor progress on the implementation of the directives of provincial government and constitute a committee to keep vigilance on the performance of government departments. http://www.brecorder.com/general-ne...-be-introduced-in-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-khattak/