KARACHI, July 15: Acting City Nazim Nasrin Jalil has said that more than 40 schools of the city government will be upgraded as “model schools”, mentioning that the city government is observing 2008 as an education year.

Ms Jalil said that educational institutions played an important role in the progress of a nation and as such after carrying out visible improvement in the city’s infrastructure the city government decided to pay attention to the education sector. She said that people and social organisations that wanted to work for the promotion of education could send their proposals to the city government. She assured of total cooperation by the city government in this regard.

She expressed these views while talking to a former Pakistani diplomat and chairman of an NGO, Mansoor Alam, who met her on Tuesday.

She was informed that 185 home-based schools had been set up in various provinces, including 130 in Sindh and 25 in Balochistan. When her attention was drawn to a garbage dump near a school in the cantonment area, she assured that she would take up the issue with the relevant authorities.—APP

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