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| February 28, 2006 | Tuesday | Muharram 29, 1427 |
NWFP making rapid progress in education, says minister
PESHAWAR, Feb 27: NWFP Senior Minister Sirajul Haq has called upon the teachers’ community to perform their obligations devotedly and work for character building and giving proper education to students.
Addressing a function arranged by the All Teachers Association NWFP (ATA) and Tanzeem-e-Asatiza Pakistan (TAP) here on Monday, he said that building courageous youth equipped with religious and scientific education was the need of the hour and teachers had to play a key role.
He said that the MMA government had increased funds for improving the standard of education and enhancing the literacy rate in the province besides other revolutionary steps which were bound to have a strong impact. As a result, he said, the enrolment of students in schools had increased to half a million this year and uneducated adults were also inclined to get education at literacy centres established by the provincial government under the “Literacy for All” project.
In response to a welcome address by Khairullah Hawari, Secretary General ATA, about the problems being faced by the teacher community, the senior minister said that the MMA government was pursuing the policy of improving working conditions for all government employees, including teachers, so that they could perform their duties satisfactorily and peacefully.
He said that a record number of promotion cases had been disposed off.
However, he said that the government would award exemplary punishment to inefficient and corrupt employees while efficiency would be duly encouraged under the reward and punishment policy.
He expressed confidence that the teaching staff of government schools would make comparisons with the private sector in respect of best examination results and standard of education and thus would promote healthy competition.
He assured that the government would also leave no stone unturned in providing them maximum facilities.
Sirajul Haq lauded the role of the ATA and TAP, especially regarding establishing 13 Hira schools for educating earthquake-affected children as well as providing all possible relief to them.
He hoped that teachers’ bodies would discuss proposals for improving the standard of education besides discussing problems regarding the teachers’ community.
Earlier, office bearers of teachers’ organizations highlighted problems and difficulties faced by the teaching community and welfare activities continued by it in various parts of the province, especially in quake-affected areas of Hazara region.—Online
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