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| March 29, 2006 | Wednesday | Safar 28, 1427 |
Education to get 4pc of GDP, says minister
ISLAMABAD, March 28: Federal Minister for Education Lt-Gen (retired) Javed Ashraf Qazi on Tuesday said four percent of the GDP (gross domestic product) will be earmarked for education in the next budget. “President has decided to increase the education budget from two percent to four percent in the next budget to uplift the education standard in the country,” he said while talking to mediapersons after attending the annual sports prize distribution ceremony of the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education here on Tuesday.
Mr Qazi said the new education policy would be implemented in 2007 for which discussions were going on among educationists, the ministry of education and other stakeholders.
He said due to poor substandard of education in the past we produced hundred percent results but failed to engender professionalism and skills in the students.
In reply to a question, he said according to a Unicef report Pakistan was among the 34 countries having lowest literacy rate. He, however, hoped that the literacy rate in the country would increase in future as the government had adopted a comprehensive education policy.
He said the government was willing to hand over schools to district governments while colleges to the provincial governments. He said much work was needed to be done in this process.
Speaking at the ceremony, the minister said keeping in view the role of sports in nation building the government had for the first time formulated a sports policy aimed to promote sport activities in educational institutions and in the country as a whole.
He said due to the lack of attention on promotion of sports, Pakistan showed poor performance in the Commonwealth games in Melbourne.
He said schools and colleges were the basic institutions which worked as a nursery for the production of future players as the students started their sports carriers from here.
Later, the minister awarded trophies and seventeen gold medals to the winners of the athletics championship.
In the inter-boards (girls) badminton championship 2005-2006, Sidra Hamid, Nadia Iqbal, Khizra Rashid, Somia Saleem, Aaira Khatoom and Nadia Rasheed were awarded gold medals.
In the inter-boards (girls) tennis championship, Shomaila Farooq, Um-i-Habiba, Saira Khatoon, Maria Jabeen, Zara Gul and Mehrunnisa Sajjad clinched the gold medals.
In the inter-boards (boys) tennis championship, Talha Asif Dar, Umar Nazir, Saud Shakeel, Abbas Zakria Qasmi and Adil Mujahid got the gold medals.
In the inter-directorate level athletics championship for girls, the Cantt and Garrison Directorate of Education, Rawalpindi, stood first; Fizaia Directorate of Education second and Fauji Foundation Directorate of Education remained third.
In the inter-collegiate athletics championship for girls, F-G Collage for Women, G-10/4, was declared first, F-G Girls Higher Secondary School, G-9/2, remained second and F. G. College for Women, Kashmir Road, Rawalpindi, clinched the third position.
In the inter-directorate level athletics championship for boys, the Federal Directorate of Education stood first, Islamabad Model College for Boys, F-7/3, second and PAEC Model College, Nilore, got the third position.
—PPI
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