MARDAN: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Education Mohammad Atif Khan has said that provincial government has recruited 8,090 teachers so far and measures are being taken to recruit 6,000 more teachers.

Addressing a ceremony held here at Government High School Bekat Ganj No.1 on Monday to distribute uniforms among the students, he alleged that the previous government ignored education sector.

The minister said that it was the mission of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government to create awareness among people about importance of education.

He said that the government was planning to launch different training programmes for teachers to improve their teaching skills. A huge fund would be allocated in the coming budget for the purpose, he added.

Mr Khan claimed that they uprooted the mafias that used to increase marks of weak students through illegal means. He said that from the next year, each primary school in the province would have six rooms instead of two and six teachers would be appointed there.

The minister said that about 0.2 million teachers were performing duty at 28,500 schools in the province. “We are also working on a plan to introduce a monitoring system to ensure presence of both teachers and students in the schools,” Mr Khan said.

SCHEMES: Dr Mehr Taj Roghani, the special assistant to chief minister on social welfare and women development, said here on Monday that government allocated Rs500 million for different schemes to help physically challenged persons and poor widows.

She was addressing a prize distribution ceremony at Special Education Complex, Mardan.

Ms Roghani said that special children were like special flowers and those, who looked after such children were blessed. She said that the government was committed to providing all kinds of facilities to them.

She said that it was collective responsibility of all citizens to come forward and play their due role in helping special people.

“The chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Imran Khan, has allocated Rs500 million for poor widows and persons with disabilities out of which Rs250 million have already been released on the recommendation of Chief Minister Pervez Khattak,” Ms Roghani said.

About the demands of officials of Special Education Complex regarding provision of books, the special assistant to chief minister said that the provincial government was planning to set up printing press to resolve the issue of book printing.

Ms Roghani said that she would take up the issue with authorities concerned to upgrade Special Education Complex.