KARACHI, Nov 14: Thirty-six model schools would be set up in the city.

This was stated EDO Education Fakhar Kareem in a briefing to City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal here on Tuesday.

He said that 18 model schools would be set up, one in each town, in the current financial year, while 18 remaining model schools would be established in the next fiscal year.

The meeting was told that work orders for 18 model schools would be issued next month.

The nazim asked the officials that attendance of teachers should be ensured. He also asked for setting up raid teams to check attendance of teachers. He announced ban on transfer of teachers from one town to another.

Referring to vocational and trade-training facilities, the nazim said that training regarding call centres should be given focus as after the construction of IT Tower some 30,000 educated youth would be required to run the call centres.

He said that the KWSB had been asked to provide water connection to schools where this facility was not provided. He said that they wanted to make every school a model school.—PPI